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Originally Posted by BBKing
Ken may be many things, but a man divorced from reality wouldn't have got the congestion charge working, improved the bus network so much and told the greedy private contractors Gordon Brown foisted on the tube to get stuffed when they came round with the begging bowl. He's also, of course, anti-Iraq War, which makes him the mainstream candidate these days.
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That's part of the problem. Ken's solution to traffic problems has been to buy more buses. All very well and good, but all it's achieved in my area is to ensure that the traffic jams have a greater percentage of buses in them. It hasn't actually improved the reliability or punctuality of those buses. Indeed, on at least one route, it has got noticably worse.
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Incidentally, London bus fares are going down 10% this year, to 90p a journey.
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What were they when Ken came in? 70p cash IIRC. The oyster card is all well and good (I have my travel card on one, much more convienant than paper tickets), but what is the minimum you can put on it? I bet it's more than 90p. So, you end up wasting money if you don't use public transport often.