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Old April 29th 17, 12:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Garden bridge abridged

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 02:36:39 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 10:10:45 PM UTC+1, Recliner wrote:
Clive Page wrote:
On 09/04/2017 21:34, Offramp wrote:
On Sunday, 9 April 2017 16:47:15 UTC+1, Recliner wrote:
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The review found that decisions on the Garden Bridge were driven more=

by
electoral cycles than value for taxpayers=E2=80=99 money.
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I walked along the relevant bit of the south bank the other day and=20
found that a good many trees had small notices attached, posted by thos=

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opposed to the bridge, pointing out that these quite attractive and=20
inoffensive trees would all be demolished if the garden bridge was=20
approved.

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Looks like it's all over bar the shouting:
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Garden Bridge: London mayor Sadiq Khan withdraws support
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39734050
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I suspect that Sadiq was always privately against it, but had to let it
fail on its own terms. That way, Boris gets the blame for the embarrassin=

g
failure of the project, and waste of public funds.


Yes, this was discussed in detail on yesterday's James O'Brien
radio show on LBC.


No doubt inbetween questioning the IQ of anyone who voted Brexit, wondering
what the problem is of uncontrolled immigration and extolling the virtues of
multiculturalism while living in his middle class bein pensant enclave in
Chiswick. He's the biggest dick on radio.

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