Sadiq Khan says “he is not happy” with the congestion charge being extended to weekends and raised to £15 a day.

He tells @mrjamesob that if he had refused the Government would have pulled the £1.6billion bailout necessary because of TfL’s drop in revenue.

But the mayor says he supports local councils to build cycle lanes.

He is also piloting more 24-hour bus lanes because he says he “doesn’t want to replace one crisis (Covid) with another (air pollution).”

The mayor says there have been one or two areas in London where there have been issues with congestion blocking emergency services, namely in Ealing and Wandsworth.

Sadiq Khan says the Government has to step in and fix Hammersmith Bridge because neither the local council, nor TfL, can afford the works.

“We just need some financial support to get it re-opened.”

Sadiq says no fireworks in London for NYE.

“Nothing happening” in central London on Dec 31st. Asked if people could still come in to pubs, he says we’ll have to see how the virus pans out.

He says City Hall working on a project people can enjoy from their own home.

Mayor is played audio of him being abused a small section of black cab drivers.

He said it happens to him more often than other politicians. In one instance, he was confronted with a mock guillotine.

He says it upsets his wife and daughters in “ways that I cannot describe”.

He says the only reason he accepted police protection because of the resulting threat posed by the abuse to his family and staff.