Boris Johnson Vanity Projects

His weakness for vanity projects.

Boris johnson vanity projects. He has a particular penchant for water crossings from the dim witted garden bridge that set the taxpayer back some 53 million to the stupid cable car across the thames that goes from nowhere to nowhere. It is estimated that his tenure at city hall as mayor of london cost the taxpayer 1 billion in vanity projects. Boris johnson has been accused of repeatedly ignoring expert advice on the viability of his so called vanity projects as london mayor leaving taxpayers with a bill of nearly 1bn and rising. The biggest failure of the scheme really is that it took so long to happen.

The scrapping of boris johnsons garden bridge project has exposed a 940m bill for his vanity projects as london mayor and prompted a senior labour figure to say her party was partly to blame. The bikes rapidly became known as boris bikes and were almost immediately popular as well they should. One thing always bothered me about having boris johnson as prime minister. A classic johnson vanity project from his time as london mayor the idea was to build a flower filled bridge across the thames in central london a bit like the high line in new york but with more pissed up city boys urinating into the water.

T he scrapping of boris johnsons garden bridge project has exposed a 940m bill for his vanity projects as london mayor and prompted a senior labour figure to say her party was partly to. British prime minister boris johnson has a long history of vanity projects which do not come to fruition a infrastructure minister nichola mallon has said. From his routemaster bus to his cable car across the thames and his aborted garden.