What's the Point of Sadiq Khan?

[Stuart]

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Stuart

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.

Not to forget the water cannon fiasco...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Not to forget the water cannon fiasco...

I had, thanks for reminding me.

[1andrew1]

The Boris bus has also been a costly fiasco and to his credit Sadiq Kahn has now allowed the bus companies to purchase their own buses.

But BoJo was a great public figure at the Olympics and handled the zipwire fiasco very well.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The Boris bus has also been a costly fiasco and to his credit Sadiq Kahn has now allowed the bus companies to purchase their own buses.

But BoJo was a great public figure at the Olympics and handled the zipwire fiasco very well.

Really? He just seemed a buffoon rather than a statesman.Personally I'd rather have a bit of gravitas in a City Mayor.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Stuart

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.

To me they're both different cheeks of The same arse, two desperados whose ambition and ego are far in excess of their actual talent for the role. It's also worth noting that bozo approved the cycle superhighway on the embankment knowing it'd have to be torn up in under a year for the super sewer to be built, still it's only money, he'd probably call it chicken feed

[TheDaddy]

I see the leader of the free world has retweeted Katie Hopkins Londonistan tweet, she is a vile creature, there's so much to attack Khan over without bringing race into it, like shutting so much of londons roads yesterday for a poxy cycle race today, how anyone is supposed to work in this 24hr metropolis with this berk in charge is beyond me, it seems like it's every week huge swathes of the city are shut for some pathetic reason or other, it'd serve him and his ilk right if we just told him to shove it and took monday of

Ride London isn't him though, that was set up under Boris. It's relatively popular (always full subscribed) so they won't be getting rid of it anytime soon.

[Carth]

London . . .

Nice place for a 2 day visit annually.
Is probably a great place to live for the rich and the wannabe celebrities.
Has some rubbish football teams.
Attracts some very dubious characters/investors.
Has a 'town hall' full of spivs & charlatans.
Should be put on the Endangered Species list.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .

Nice place for a 2 day visit annually.

Most definitely if you can get reasonable priced accomadation.

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Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .


Is probably a great place to live for the rich and the wannabe celebrities.

My sister lived there until 3 years ago but even with a reasonably good salary it became too expensive to live there anymore for her.

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Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .


Has some rubbish football teams.

Now that could be controversial.

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Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .


Attracts some very dubious characters/investors.

As do other big cities..

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Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .


Has a 'town hall' full of spivs & charlatans.

Not the only one mind...

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Originally Posted by Carth

London . . .


Should be put on the Endangered Species list.

l will let you explain that one as it could mean two to three different things.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Damien

Ride London isn't him though, that was set up under Boris. It's relatively popular (always full subscribed) so they won't be getting rid of it anytime soon.

Whose decision was it to shut 12 miles of the most important roads the day before it started? Whose great idea was shutting of large parts weekend before last, it's a city not a velodrome, whose idea is the car free weekend in October. After a year of being bored in Essex I'm back now and looking forward to playing a small part in booting this attention seeking, inept mayor from office, it's amazing his approval ratings are so low considering all the playing to the crowd and pr he does

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Whose decision was it to shut 12 miles of the most important roads the day before it started? Whose great idea was shutting of large parts weekend before last, it's a city not a velodrome, whose idea is the car free weekend in October. After a year of being bored in Essex I'm back now and looking forward to playing a small part in booting this attention seeking, inept mayor from office, it's amazing his approval ratings are so low considering all the playing to the crowd and pr he does

I don't know why they close it beforehand. Do you mean yesterday? Because the event takes place over the two days. The weekend before was the London Triathlon I think which I think has been happening longer than London Ride. The car free weekend was Khan's idea though.

My point being these things will continue. The long-term plan of the Mayor's office, though consecutive holders, and TFL has been to reduce car usage. Once Kahn has gone these roads will still be closed on these weekends. Paris is facing the same problems for example. Old European cities are struggling with polluting cars.

I think Kahn has been quite useless as Mayor but most of these road closers aren't him and will only increase as time goes on. Knife crime, housing and Crossrail are likely what'll hurt him. Whereas Trump's attacks only help him. He is also lucky the Tories seem to have chosen an idiot as their candidate.