Boris Johnson's plans for The Tube

Ah - so dear old Boris is doing the 'jumping on London's Transport system' bandwagon is he? Always guaranteed to get some media attention.....

PSCO's - I assume you mean PCSO's - Police Community Support Officers; the uniformed 'support' for proper Police Officers. They have very limited powers but at least look look 'real' police from a distance. Actually they do seem to have made a difference in BTP as they've increased police visibility on the network - the statistics in the reduction of vandalism at the east end of the District for example appear to bear witness to that.

Routemasters (or the modern equivalent) with conductors for bendy buses? Not too sure about that, though I do agree they were never designed for London roads; they're a menace along the Uxbridge Road IMHO! I have t agree with Kens spokesperson though - I think Boris' costings look as if they were done on a dysfuntional abacus!

Air con on the underground? Errr - hello? This is being worked on so that's another bandwagon he can jump on (along with the rest of the Undergrounf upgrades, Crossrail etc. etc.

Later running on the Underground; IRRC Ken tried this only to let it drop quietly a couple of years ago (he blamed it on the Unions but it would be hellishly complex to schedule and roster) let alone the continuing accusations that we'd be running a service later to get a few p**s heads home to the detriment of real people needing to get to work at unearthly o'clock on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Popular with the Horray Henry's maybe though?

Time to head back to Henly Boris; I really can't see you convincing too many of the London electorate with a revamp of current policies/practices and a few semi right wing headline grabbers.

Won't get onto the subject of some of Paddick (the lib dem bloke's) 'bright ideas' on transport - they were IMHO equally daft and unworkable!

Ken ain't perfect (by any means) but he's still the only one of the three who has real experience of London and how it ticks.

Boris "policies" = motherhood and apple pie. Selecting him as a candidate shows the low regard in which the Conservative party holds the London electorate. But I digress.

THC

From my experiences of arriving into London at all hours on Sat nights/Sunday mornings and wanting to get out to the home counties I find it more frustrating when I arrive at 5 and have to use nightbuses because it's an age till first tube than when I arrive at 1 or 2 and have missed the last tube.
That said despite my regular use of the last services, I've never /just/ missed one, always /just/ caught it.