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Mayors’ nests

10 August 2021
 

The concept of mayors with strong and clear political responsibility for transport matters, among others, is relatively new to the UK. 

In fact, the original model was built around the restructuring of how London’s transport should be planned and delivered by the Labour government at the end of the 1990s, reversing Margaret Thatcher’s abolition of the old Greater London Council (GLC). 

The first mayor to cut his teeth on this approach was one Ken Livingstone, former leader...

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