Boris Johnson - Mayor of London?

[DodgyAgent]

Sorry to agree with you on most points, but my original comment stands - on transport issues in London I think he's been good. To be honest, as someone who is living and working in London my biggest grievence would be transport, and I have to say I hitnk things have improved under him.

I don't believe its possible for anyone, regardless of politics, to make London trasnport a pleasurable experience, but he's done a good job of making it tolerable.

So like a lemming you accept that the status quo of transport is as good as it is going to get do you? So we should accept overcrowded trains, ticket machines that dont work, ticket desks being closed because staff are on "sickies" during a monday morning rush hour. What is more I cannot stand those ars***les with whistles shepherding us (customers) into trains reminiscent of how the Nazis used to load the Jews into the carriages to go to the concentration camps.

[Buffoon]

This is the sort of thing that scares me off using the Tube.

BBC: Hundreds stuck in Tube derailment

[hyperD]

This is the sort of thing that scares me off using the Tube.

BBC: Hundreds stuck in Tube derailment

I refer the gentleman to one of my earlier posts...

[snaw]

So like a lemming you accept that the status quo of transport is as good as it is going to get do you? So we should accept overcrowded trains, ticket machines that dont work, ticket desks being closed because staff are on "sickies" during a monday morning rush hour. What is more I cannot stand those ars***les with whistles shepherding us (customers) into trains reminiscent of how the Nazis used to load the Jews into the carriages to go to the concentration camps.

No, I quite clearly said it's got better. There are also quite clearly some issues that are extremely difficult to solve, regardless of politics - overcrowded trains are simply a fact of life in London, given the city the number of commuters who are in, or commute to London at peak times.

The transport unions here are a pet hate of mine, a bunch of people who get paid like city bankers and have the employment conditions of french government workers. They have us by the balls and they know it, answers on a postcard on solving that one.

The rest I don't personally actually experience very often - at least no more than you'd experience those things in any other major city in the world.

[The Lone Gunman]

I know Ken gets a lot of credit from you guys, but I wonder if anybody else would have done a better job.
Ken is the first person to occupy thsi office and it was part of the remit for the job to take control of things like transport.

I recently visited London and was appaled at how bad transport has become and how expensive. It also seems more prone to break down these days too.

[wendigo100]

Boris has one attribute that most seasoned politicians lack - more people like him than don't.

[realityhack]

...who has a personal agenda that has absolutly nothing to do with serving the people of London. He is an arrogant self serving nasty little leftie, who pursues personal vendettas against anyone who tries to criticise him (the evening standard being one of them)

Exactly.

[snaw]

I recently visited London and was appaled at how bad transport has become and how expensive. It also seems more prone to break down these days too.

Eh, how bad it has become - you sure you've been here before?

[DodgyAgent]

I beg to differ. Public transport has got worse. It used to be fantastic as the legacy of economic mismanagement by the previous labour govt meant that no one had jobs and few people used it. There used to be 100 staff and 2 trains to each passenger

[Lucy]

Ken should be buried up to his neck in scorpions.

And pissed on.