Transport: The black hole in the Tories' London manifesto

[Taxloss]

A piece I wrote for Londonist.

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Rejoice! The Tories have launched their London manifesto. You can read it here (.PDF). So what might the capital expect from a Conservative government? (Yes, we know, just try and suspend disbelief for a while.)

Well, most of it's just the national manifesto with the word "Britain" crossed out and "London" written in in crayon. It's not racist to bring back matron! Taller policemen! No early parole for the MRSA superbug! Smaller asylum seekers! Cleaner taxes! Spankings all round! Now wash you hands!

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... it's odd that certain major infrastructure projects - Crossrail, for a start - don't get a mention. Doubly odd if you consider how important they are to the capital with or without the Olympics. In fact, in the section headed "Transport" ...

Wait a moment, there is no section headed "Transport".

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http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/04/something_of_th.php

[RogueTrooper]

1. Certainly more substance than the Tories policies

Is there any mention of the congestion charge?

[Taxloss]

2. Yes. They plan to abolish it, but don't have the power to.

So they'll probably abolish the GLA as well. They've done it before.

This was in the piece.