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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The thing about Crossrail on Khan's watch is that he has tried (or so it seems) to hide the bad news. When people do that, they are usually hiding their own culpability. If it had been a blunder by Bojo, he'd have trumpeted that.
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No, he wouldn't.. What about the Garden Bridge he wanted? £56m and what do we have? Zilch.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/l...-a8237636.html
Contrary to trumpeting this failure, Boris is actually going out of his way to deny responsibility for this, blaming everyone else but him.
As for the Emirates Airline cable car(another Boris project), look at the passenger numbers.
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publica...rformance-data . The average number of passengers per week is about 10% of capacity. Without sponsorship, I suspect it's highly unlikely it's making much profit, and unless passenger numbers improve significantly, I suspect that Emirates will not be looking to renew their sponsorship. On the average year, they get around 1-1.2m passengers. They are paying several times that.
I'm not a fan of Sadiq. I don't particularly dislike him, but I can't put my finger on anything and say he has achieved that. Regarding Boris, at the time, I liked him, and thought he was a good Mayor.
Regarding Crossrail, I think the problems there have been there since before Sadiq came to power, and I would argue that he, and TFL have been quite open about them.
One the plus side, he has pledged £110m more for the Met.
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-rele...for-met-police , but of course the right wing media won't trumpet that. Nor will they trumpet the years of government cuts that likely contributed to the current crime figures.