Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 15 May 2016 04:46:49 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

From
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...n-mayor-london

The new London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is investigating his predecessor’s
conduct over the procurement process for London’s planned £175m garden
bridge.

What he needs to do is cancel the damn thing. I know he's quoted as
supporting it but we do not need this wretched thing. The legal
restrictions on how anyone can "use" this monstrosity are enough, in
my view, to rule out all public funding. If they want to hire the
thing out, impose private security checks, prevent groups of people
standing still on the bridge etc then it should be wholly privately
funded and ideally built somewhere other than in London. Go and build
it on Beijing - the legal restrictions would fit in really well there!

It is a financial disaster in the making and the procurement process
is something the Mafia would be proud of.

Yup, I suspect Sadiq wants to kill the project, but discreetly: he probably
doesn't fancy a public fight with Joanna Lumley this early in his term. So
he'll probably attack the process, rather than the concept. And he may keep
a much tighter grip on TfL's funds -- he has frozen fares to fund.