New London buses - staggering costs and broken promises
Responding to the costs of the new "Routemaster" replacement buses in London as revealed by a Freedom of Information request, Caroline Pidgeon, deputy chair of the London Assembly's Transport Committee, told the Huffington Post:
“The Mayor of London first promised Londoners that the research and design costs of the new bus for London would be picked up by private business.
"The reality is that over £400,000 of public money was spent on design costs alone and the first eight buses cost taxpayers a staggering £11 million.