Boris Johnson's transport plans

Traffic and transport is something that is close to my heart. Like many people living in West Wickham I am a commuter and a regular user of local transport.

So it was disappointing but not entirely unexpected to see Boris's TFL plan appears to be heavy on cutbacks particularly in South London which is already a poor cousin, transport wise, compared to other London areas.
Unfortunately all the planned pedestrian squares and areas in London, similar to the successful pedestrianisation of Trafalgar Square have been canned.
Plans for Oxford Street’s diesel buses with an electric tram has been abandoned.
The Cross River Tram which would have run between Euston and Waterloo, with several onward branches, has been abandoned.
And locally the £170 million Crystal Palace link in Croydon’s tram network has been cancelled.

I can accept to a certain degree that costs may not have always been realistic and I was never over-enamoured with the planned Thames Gateway bridge as I believed it would have made traffic in Bexley even worse. But it seems that when money is needed to dramatically increase flights from City Airport for our much beloved banking executives somehow Boris comes up with the goods.

Speaking of airports it looks as though the forces behind expanding Biggin Hill have reared their ugly heads again with a third hotel proposal. Seems as though they will never give up. More on that soon.