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@Oliver Schick
If this is all true, it's a proper clanger.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/disbelief-at-plan-to-fix-london-potholes-as-part-of-network-north-project
The North needs funding to stimulate the economy there. (HS2 would have been the wrong strategy.) Conventionally, one measurement of economic activity is traffic generation--basically, the more measurable trips there are, the more active people seem to be, and the more economic activity takes place (crude, but one reason why politicians mostly want more traffic--they may say they want fewer motorised trips, but in practice little is done to reduce them, see continued road-building, but also some investment in public transport). More motor traffic (buses included) means more wear and tear on the streets and roads, hence more potholes. London has more such wear and tear than most streets and roads in the North, hence it gets the funding to repair them. Rinse, repeat.