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Re: urbancyclist-uk: Boris --was Who's still here?
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keith
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Oct 21, 2008 03:45 PDT
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First off -- I aintent dead.
back to Andrews post - -
I'm not entirely convinced that Ken needed the Greens support for all
the transport stuff anyway.
It's handy having some elected Greens about for some things but most of
the time the Green's demands are pretty unworkable due to the need for a
'Day One' approach in a Pol Pot styleee.
Boris appears to be more in to bike parking than Ken was, it can be
handy to have a Mayor that actually cycles and is less dependant on
tubes and buses (and the cost of fares). That and Boris is not a h#@met
wearer.
Ken didn't have enough power over the transport infrastruture as Tony B
was far too paranoid to give it all up - and that too much had gone the
way of 'competitive tendering' with guaranteed subsidy and bonus
structures built in.
The oil deal was always a bit odd, congestion charge was already under
fire as there were so many loopholes and scams.
Bus and tube fares would have gone up anyway (and were going up).
But Boris has had a bit of a shock -- all them 'advisers' brought in to
run the place either just dodgy buggers or too power-hungry with agendas
contrary to Boris's plans.
A lot of them are still there, though.
Best of all is that those of us who reside in Barnet and Camden are
waiting to see what the outcome of the contest between Boris the Bike
and Coleman the Cab will be, now that Brian the Bike Hater (our GLA
rep) has a Cyclophile as boss.
Keith
Andrew Curry wrote:
| | Responding to Jeremy's observations that we don't seem to know that
much about Boris's views yet, there was posted on another list a
presentation by the Green AM Jenny Jones (naturally a Boris critic)
which suggested we might know quite a lot.(This is quite long).
One of the points made in here - which has been made to me elsewhere -
is that London's transport policy is likely to be influenced (and not
for the better) by the fact that the Mayor no longer needs the support
of the Greens to pass his budget.
And we also know that so far he has cancelled the oil deal with
Venezuala, and the higher-price congestion charge for high emissions
cars, and had to fill the budget gap with significant increases in bus
and tube fares - which sounds to me like classic regressive
Conservative politics.
Jenny Jones' speech is below.
Andrew
Green Transport for a showcase city
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