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Just heard on the radio that the SoS Transport, Philip Hammond, is
'consulting' Mayor Boris on a £108 million cut to the GLA transport grant from central government (which rather sounds like a metaphor for telling BoJo how it's going to be). Not sure of the proportion these at the moment but a few years back the grant accounted for around half of TfL's funding. On the same bulletin I heard that the Mayor has confirmed this morning that the Western Extension of the Congestion Charge will be scrapped by the end of the year, so that's a source of income that will no longer exist. Of course last week we heard about the finalised design for the New Bus for London (aka 'new Routemaster', 'BorisBus', 'BorisMaster'), which many have described as something of a vanity project for Boris - and that doesn't come for free. And then there's the costly purge of bendy buses from London. All this in the context of TfL taking over the Tube Lines infraco (after the 2008 takeover of Metronet), so now TfL itself is responsible for delivering the promised Underground line upgrades. Then there's Crossrail... |
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