£20m public money down the drain

[Martin Cassini]

Transport for London spending our money wisely again (not). Article here.

[Martin Cassini]

Oh Ian. No harm in disagreement, and your comment is certainly a million miles from my thoughts on the subject! TfL is a publicly-funded, overblown oligarchy which pays 100 of its managers over £100k a year. They all get BUPA. They have been opposing my proposals for trials in deregulation for 7 years, unsurprisingly, I suppose, since they will be the first to suffer redundancy when my ideas are adopted (redundancy richly earned). The con charge was imposed before deregulation was even tried. The CC is a cancer. We're having building work in SE1. Every time the plumbers, plasterer, electrician or carpenter come to work, they have to pay £8. That's in addition to the criminal parking charges. The price of the job has shot up. Moreover, I live in the zone, and the paperwork to apply for the discount is a burden, and costs £10 every time. Also as I've said before, they don't let you register as an individual, with a permit you can swap when you change your (hire) car. Oh no. You can only register a vehicle, complete with V5. The whole thing is an intrusive, expensive, bureaucratic insult, a theft of time, beneath contempt. No, me no fan.

[Ian Perry]

If Boris reversed his decision to scrap the congestion charge, TfL would be financially much better off and able to invest where investment is necessary.