While there he will meet some of the new TOps which Boris
and his media circus no doubt imagines will be a splendid photo opportunity but
I’m not so sure it will be quite as expected.
Rather than former members of the public who’ve signed up to be train
drivers I suspect that this batch of trainees will mostly be made up of station staff who’ve been
squeezed out by Fit for the Future and as RMT or TSSA members would have been on strike last
summer. Just what sort of reception Boris will get from people he
has taken every opportunity to insult I’m not sure but if the visit does go
ahead it could be quite amusing (for everyone except Boris),
Tuesday 15 March 2016
More on Night Tube, the Moring Star initially said that
Boris would make his grand announcement today at Ashford depot which I found rather odd as that is where Southeastern
keep their Javelin trains, nothing to do with TfL, and it was suggested that
this was an attempt by Boris to steal a bit of the limelight ahead of George
Osborne’s budget on Wednesday. Later the Evening Standard added actual dates, 5 August
and 23 September, also from an unnamed ASLEF source, along with the news that
the announcement will be made some time after the budget at Ashfield House, LU’s
training centre next to West Kensington station (that big tower block behind the east end of the Westbound platform that looks like Gestapo HQ).
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De nada so far, other than more totally uninformed comment - what a surprise - not.
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