I'll give Boris the credit for anything he achieves Hal, but at present the indications aren't promising, his pre-election targets already being ducked out of. He even sounded like Ken word for word in his last statement on knife crime!
Certainly the buses aren't eleven times better or correspondingly cheaper, but that's in the nature of all public transport and services, the return being poor and usually a loss maker. The railways are the same and the Channel Tunnel has long been an economic lost cause. Of course in Europe they recognise that fact and don't expect them to make money, just paying out whatever is necessary to have a good service. Since Thatcher in particular we have this silly political idea that everything has to pay it's way, and one only has to look at the mess those policies have made of the BBC to see how futile that is.
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