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18 March 2010.
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KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business agenda scam Crossrail…” CAMPAIGN has told them so for years. And years. And years. That the EXISTING transport infrastructure in London was the real priority to be addressed with any money that was available for transport. And that Crossrail was not a priority and so the money allocated to it should be used instead to meet the urgent needs of the existing infrastructure. If this is done then jobs will not only be cut but new ones created. But in the transport management in the name of London, there is no coherence. No competence. And no history. The result is that they are prepared to waste £Billions on Crossrail but are openly blatantly gloating of their stupidity involved in ‘saving’ £16Million on the tube where they are making hundreds of jobs redundant! Nothing could prove our diagnosis of the stupidity of Ken Livingstone's regime more clearly. Livingstone failed to tell the truth. Livingstone neglected to tell the truth and chose instead to play the role of a tout for the Big Business forces that are at work to rob the public under 'big infrastructure project' slogans and labels. His true legacy is the mess that is evident in the deepening mess and wastes and losses in the London transport 'system' [!] today. Boris is doing exactly as Ken had done. Where does it say this? In the Guardian. The Guardian’s resident grinning peddler for Ken Livingstone has 'certified' [!!!!!!] Only last week that Boris is doing as Ken Livingstone would have done! “Ask Ken” said the grinning peddler for Ken Livingstone’s remaining career ambitions operating via the London Guardian. [To be continued]
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London mayor Boris Johnson a 'hypocrite' over Tube cuts
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The London mayor has been branded a "hypocrite" by unions and attacked for "broken promises" over plans to axe Tube ticket office jobs.
Transport union TSSA said Boris Johnson was "elected on the promise to keep all stations open and fully staffed".
Tube bosses announced plans to axe up to 800 jobs last week, under measures to make savings of £16m a year.
Mr Johnson, who heads Transport for London (TfL), said his record on delivering promises was "outstanding".
The TSSA said Mr Johnson plans to cut more than 2,000 hours from booking station opening times across the capital.
'Broken promises'
The union, which branded the mayor "hypocrite of the year", published a list of all 278 stations which it said would close earlier in the evenings and at the weekends under cuts planned by Mr Johnson.
TSSA leader Gerry Doherty said Mr Johnson "signed our petition in 2007 when Ken [Livingstone] was planning cuts at 40 stations and he was elected on the promise to keep all stations open and fully staffed".
"Now here he is in 2010 planning cuts six times those planned by Ken Livingstone [former London mayor]".
At Mayor's Question Time at City Hall in central London, Labour Assembly member Navin Shah said: "Boris Johnson misled Londoners when he told the assembly that no ticket offices will close under his programme of ticket office cuts."
Green Party Labour Assembly member Jenny Jones said: "Going back on his promise about staffing Tube stations properly isn't only about whether or not we can believe anything the mayor says in the future, but also about his making life less safe and more difficult for thousands of Londoners."
Last week, Tube officials said the post closures would include 100 managers, 450 ticket office posts and up to 200 other jobs.
However a TfL spokesman ruled out compulsory redundancies and said posts would be closed through not filling existing vacancies, voluntary redundancies and redeploying staff.
Mr Johnson said: "Our general record on delivering manifesto promises is outstanding and a tribute to the hard work of everyone who is working flat out to make life better for London."
Mayor of London transport advisor Kulveer Ranger said: "Every station with a ticket office will continue to have one.
"All stations will be staffed at all times when trains are running, and stations will feel safer by moving some staff out of the office and amongst the public."
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