When Boris Johnson was elected Mayor, he promised an end to Ken Livingstone’s high-handedness. From now on, said Mr Johnson, there would be consultation and he would listen to what people said. For this new democratic start, he took the chair of Transport for London himself.
It hasn’t happened. In April, some residents of the Ladbroke Grove district in west London discovered that TfL had awarded contracts to drive two new bus routes through the heart of the W11 historic conservation area, ostensibly to take people to the giant new Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherd’s Bush…
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