Dave Hill on London Boris’s Budget 2015-16: how the London mayor will make ends meet Even though its population is booming London’s top tier of government is having to cope with large spending cuts City Hall. Photograph: Martin Godwin
4th October 2021 Tracking government policies and priorities that discriminate against and exclude London and Londoners, often in the name of “levelling up” DAVE HILL In his Introduction to the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, Boris Johnson said his government
18th November 2021 The capital’s transport agency has produced a pessimistic forecast involved service cuts and deterioration of assets across the board DAVE HILL The UK’s capital is on course to face massive cuts to its bus and Underground services,
14th October 2021 The Mayor strongly defended his radical air quality measure and his Question Time session today DAVE HILL Sadiq Khan today claimed that a huge expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) starting from 25 October will bring
11th October 2021 Information provided to the London Assembly gives a clue from last year’s figures DAVE HILL Following a meeting of the London Assembly’s transport committee in July, committee chair Caroline Pidgeon wrote to one of the meeting’s guests, Transport
27th September 2021 The Prime Minister’s transport adviser appears to have a free hand to lean on the capital’s transport authority DAVE HILL The content of recent messages from Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson’s special adviser on transport, to Will Norman, his
23rd August 2021 A new ticket hall, lifts and restored high street entrance have also been announced DAVE HILL Another Elizabeth line station has been transferred to the control of Transport for London by Crossrail Ltd, marking a further
12th July 2021 The Mayor has so far not chosen to use his powers to impose the rule himself DAVE HILL Sadiq Khan has urged the government to “retain the existing national legal requirement for face coverings on public
18th June 2021 Transport for London has acknowledged a congestion problem in the area and says the future of the fast-tracked bike infrastructure is under consideration DAVE HILL When the Mayor and Transport for London announced their Streetspace programme in May
Monday, 15 March 2021 NO TO THIS! ICM was paid a great deal of London taxpayer’s money to give TfL the answer it wanted. When a public body organises a ‘consultation’ the questions will be ‘fixed’ to back up the
