#VoteBike - 2012 London Mayoral elections

Transport fares went up when he was mayor too and the tube was just as shit as it is now. In a recession they have gone up more yet he suddenly claims he is going to lower them by 7% when Tfl's figures say that it is not possible unless he slams prices up by almost 40% in 3 years.

Thanks to the (now failed and defunct) PPP contracts let before he got into power, the Tube was largely out of his control. He did have control over the buses, and as far as i can tell he transformed the service. (I was only an occasional visitor to london before 2001.)

I do worry about his 7% promise, as the Tube has needed a vast amount of investment to catch up with the decades of neglect and it would be a tragedy not to finish that process.