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New: Free travel for over-60s in London during peak hours was temporarily suspended after Government made it a condition of TfL's £1.6 billion bailout.
Ditto, free travel for children.
You'll remember row between mayor and DfT about responsibility for congestion charge hike.
Ditto, free travel for children.
You'll remember row between mayor and DfT about responsibility for congestion charge hike.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps set out conditions of the bailout in a letter to Sadiq Khan on May 14.
Mr Shapps said it was necessary to "optimise the available safe transport capacity".
Ergo, get people who aren't working off public transport to keep commuters safe.
Mr Shapps said it was necessary to "optimise the available safe transport capacity".
Ergo, get people who aren't working off public transport to keep commuters safe.
Depending on your viewpoint, you may welcome more cycle lanes.
Or you may be tearing your hair out as you sit in traffic jams caused by roadworks for the foreseeable.
Whatever your opinion, Mr Shapps is responsible. New cycles lanes are another condition of the bailout.
Or you may be tearing your hair out as you sit in traffic jams caused by roadworks for the foreseeable.
Whatever your opinion, Mr Shapps is responsible. New cycles lanes are another condition of the bailout.
Speculation we will see a major power grab by Downing Street.
Bailout condition that HMG gets two positions on TfL's board.
London source tells me they fear Andrew Gilligan will fill one spot. He was Boris Johnson's cycling tsar, when he was mayor, and now works in Number 10.
Bailout condition that HMG gets two positions on TfL's board.
London source tells me they fear Andrew Gilligan will fill one spot. He was Boris Johnson's cycling tsar, when he was mayor, and now works in Number 10.
City Hall not happy.
Mayor's spokesman: “The reason the Government didn’t want the full document to be published is because it shows in black and white that they are punishing Londoners for doing the right thing during this pandemic."
Mayor's spokesman: “The reason the Government didn’t want the full document to be published is because it shows in black and white that they are punishing Londoners for doing the right thing during this pandemic."
Spox adds: "It forces TfL to raise all fares above inflation; raise the congestion charge; restrict free travel for over 60s and scrap it completely for under 18s. This deal is unfair on Londoners and shows that we are the test-bed for the Government austerity that’s to come.”
