- Livingstone gives free trips on buses to teenagers, not a traditionally well behaved demographic. This costs money.
- Some teenagers cause havoc and damage on those very same buses, causing distress and costing more money.
- Livingstone decides to put community support officers on the buses, costing more money and probably not solving the problem.
Now, had Livingstone just left things as they were we wouldn't have had half the trouble or anything like the cost. SNAFU
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Surely this applies across London - why the reference to Bexley?
Law of unintended consequences - bugger about with something and it will turn round and bite you. I prefer the cockup theory of progress. There's a cockup so we don't do it again
Sorry left a bit out.
Unfortunately Bliar and Brown have yet to learn this
Would it have anything to do with the final for the Bexley/Bromley GLA seat tonight?
75 billion for a defence system we will never use, 9 billion for the Olympics, 5 billion to invade Iraq, and the financial capital of the world can't afford free buses to get children to school. Surely you can't want to scrap free bus travel for under 16s?
Of course there was a time when all buses had a community support officer, although they were called conductors back then.
Anon,
I was mainly amazed that Livingstone had actually visited outer London.
Bexley are the first to get these "bus bobbies".
I'd prefer "bus marshals"!
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