Cash-strapped TFL splashes £207K of taxpayers' cash changing name of one route | 11KZ1YV | 2024-02-18 06:08:01
The mayor's workforce spent the large quantity rebadging the X26 commuter service to SL7 final
SADIQ Khan's cash-strapped Transport for London splashed £207,000 of taxpayers' money changing the identify of a single bus route.
The mayor's workforce spent the large quantity rebadging the X26 commuter service to SL7 final yr.
It included £132,000 on new paint and wrap jobs for 24 double-deckers, and £51,000 on advertising the route, between Croydon and Heathrow Airport.
Another £7,000 went on info leaflets, £13,000 on "shelter roundel toppers", £3,000 on changing bus cease indicators and £1,000 on new timetables.
The route is part of the cross-London "Superloop" bus service launched by TfL to spice up ailing passenger numbers.
There can be ten Superloop routes, so pricey rebrands underneath the Labour mayor might stretch to more than £2million in complete.
TfL's complete debt is £15.2billion — rising by £3.5billion because the pandemic began.
We also informed yesterday how the leftie politician was accused of turning the London Overground into "virtue signalling nonsense" by renaming six practice routes.
The £6million rebrand consists of Liberty, Windrush, and Suffragette strains.
But opponents stated the move was politically motivated and broke with a decades-old tradition of naming new strains after royals or iconic London landmarks.
Former cabinet minister Lord Frost stated: "The London custom is that public transport strains are given a reputation either with a royal connection or one related to the road's geography.
"Giving them political names is, whether or not one agrees with the politics or not, a break with that tradition."
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> And last night time historical past buffs lambasted Mr Khan after his social media accounts used a statue of Millicent Fawcett to announce the Suffragette line.
Ms Fawcett – a suffragist – used non-violent strategies to campaign for ladies to be given the vote.
She was not associated to efforts led by suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst, who oversaw more than 300 arson and bombing assaults in 1913 and 1914.
His publish saying the identify was humiliatingly slapped with a group observe fact-check, which learn: "The picture accommodates the statue of Millicent Fawcett who was a suffragist, not a suffragette.
"These are two totally different groups who had totally different aims."
TfL stated: "Because the SL7 launched, there was a 62 per cent improve in clients utilizing it."
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