On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 09:49:14PM +0100, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

* Brian Paddick

Last time round, his transport policies we

* women-only tube carriages (sexist and stupid)
* free wifi across London, paid for by cutting TfL's communications
budget (stupid, and would only have applied to the inner boroughs but
you can bet the outer boroughs wouldn't get a discount on our taxes);
* lots of ANPR and linking it to "GPS technology", whatever that means;
* a high speed rail link to Scotland (which is outside the mayor's
remit)

So, despite me being a member of the Lib Dems, I didn't vote for him,
because he's an idiot.

Tuffrey is pleding express buses at peak hours and more
orbital routes, as well as raising extra funding through a municipal bond
scheme and switching to green energy.

Uh-huh. The mayor has no say in energy policy, and municipal bonds
would require an act of Parliament.

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