A TV company have brought a double-decker bus to City Hall as a backdrop to an interview with me about Routemasters, fare evasion and bus driver behaviour. I had thought it was a news interview (which generally ends up as a nano-second sound bite) but this went on for about 15 minutes – at which point I discovered it was a real programme going out next month. Thought it odd to be given proper time to discuss these issues!

The nano-second version of my views:

Routemasters – gorgeous but can’t live in what we call a civilised society if we use buses that people with disabilities cannot use.

Fare evasion – Mayor has got to crack down on it. No use raising fares on everything if GBP85 million is leaking away in favour of the dishonest.

And bus driver behaviour: bless all the good ones – and curses on the ones who drive too fast, stop too abruptly, don’t pull into the curb, don’t put down the ramp even when working and use mobile phones. Long-running campaign of mine – now coming into the GLA’s Transport Committee as we’ve commissioned LTUC to do some work on this.