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The corridor vote wasn't about buses. It was about who gets to wait.

A fourth review is not caution. It is a decision to make one group of Londoners carry the delay while another is spared the disruption.

JW By Joelle Wray
September 2, 2026

There is a version of Tuesday night in which council was being careful. That version requires you to believe that the fourth review of the same eleven kilometres will find something the first three missed.

The people who ride the 2 and the 6 have been told to wait since 2019. The people who were promised the corridor would not touch their street have been told they were heard, four times.

Deferral is not neutral. It allocates the cost of indecision, and it allocates it to the same riders every time.

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2 Sep 15:43 Published.

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