While Boris may be the “Cycling Mayor” in the public perception, in reality his policies sell us all short. In 2008 he promised us a “cycling revolution”, yet one of his very first moves when he came to office was to slash funding for the London Cycling Network, an attempt to create a large-scale cycling network across London, and then the road safety budget.
When the news broke that he had run up a £4,698 taxi bill in his first year alone for short hops across London, we started to get suspicious. Was Boris, always a master of controlling his own image (don’t fall for the bumbling fool routine), merely using cycling as a means to convey that he was one of us and not the toffee-nosed Bullingdon Boy he really was? And meanwhile, when the cameras weren’t rolling, was he just whizzing around London in a black cab?
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