On 08/11/2012 11:55, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:01:32 +0000, Mizter T
wrote:

But yes, I can well imagine the timing of the announcement was a bit of
news management. C'est la vie.

Err TfL said the date of the Board meeting where the increases was
discussed had been in the diary for months. If you look back at
previous years the pattern of TfL Board meetings is pretty stable.
Obviously the date of the US election was known 4 years ago but I
can't see that the Mayor / TfL would go to these lengths.

Maybe Boris sent a hitman to assassinate Clive Dunn, and leaked news of
the archbishop?

There was a
delay given the Govt policy change on the scale of RPI increases - I
doubt that was predicted many months back when the Board meeting was
diarised.

Tom Edwards of the BBC did tweet yesterday to say it was a pretty poor
attempt to "bury bad news" if you invite all the relevant members of
the press to the Board meeting where you discuss the fares rise.

I bet the _real_ bad news was buried by the fare rises.


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