Hammersmith Bridge is open again

It's really amazing. Government bleeds councils and TfL dry of funding. Hammersmith Bridge has to be closed because of this. Government makes an announcement:

Mr Shapps was said by sources to have “lost patience” with Labour-run Hammersmith and Fulham council, which owns the bridge.

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Mr Shapps said today: “When it comes to the Hammersmith Bridge there has been a lack of leadership in London on re-opening this vital bridge.

Useless idiots (in the Government).

Tony Devenish, the Conservative member of the London Assembly for the area, said today: "I welcome the Government's intervention to fix Hammersmith Bridge. After 17 months of Hammersmith and Fulham council and the Mayor of London dithering, delaying and failing to fix the bridge, we desperately needed someone to step in and sort it out.

Party politics can be so shit.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hammersmith-bridge-taskforce-a4543671.html

The truth is that there has been no lack of leadership in London at all, but simply no money. I will grant that the stupid decision to build the Silvertown Tunnel has something to do with that, but that, after all, is a Johnson-era project, and I could well imagine that Khan had to accept doing it or face even worse financial problems. Then again, it might genuinely be his decision, but as far as I know the Government supports it.