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
Dave Hill: Sadiq Khan is right to start smart road user charging conversation
18th January 2022 The Mayor has taken a welcome lead and will need lots of stamina and many friends to win the argument with Londoners and others DAVE HILL Arguing that motorists should pay more for using roads is a
Renewed pleas to government for long-term TfL deal as ‘Plan B’ prompts fall in public transport use
13th December 2021 London businesses, the UK rail industry and the Lib Dems in parliament are all underlining the national need for a lasting financial settlement DAVE HILL Leading London businesses have joined Transport for London in
Dave Hill: London: The Levelling Down Monitor
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
Dave Hill: Transport for London prepares for ‘managed decline’ of network as government fails to engage on funding
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,
The Dame: TFL AND ITS DODGY AND EXPENSIVE ‘RESIDENTS’ SURVEY
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
Dave Hill: We need a big, clear re-think about transport on London’s streets
31st January 2021 The problems the Streetspace programme has run into provide lessons about how best to make streets greener, safer and more tranquil DAVE HILL The High Court ruling was pretty blunt. Transport for London’s Streetspace plan, introduced with a fanfare
Dave Hill: New London Lockdown: What’s happening with public transport this time?
7th January 2021 There is a different approach to setting service levels compared with last March DAVE HILL A few days before the government imposed the first English national lockdown last March, Sadiq Khan and Transport for London moved
Dave Hill: London public transport fares and mayoral Council Tax will rise next year
16th December 2020 Sadiq Khan has blamed the government for a forthcoming 2.6% TfL fares hike and £1.59 Band D household Council Tax increase he’s announced today DAVE HILL Transport for London fares will rise by an overall 2.6% from
Dave Hill; London’s ‘non-essential’ shops begin emergence from Covid lockdown
15th June 2020 Preparations for re-opening the West End were evident over the weekend DAVE HILL Long queues have been forming outside shops across Greater London as lockdown regulations affecting those previously deemed non-essential are eased. Outlets from Primark in Bromley to Kingston are