Well, well, well. TfL Commissioner Andy Lord has been accused of lying about graffiti on the underground, after he made comments following a clean-up operation by Looking For Growth (LFG). After footage of volunteers wiping graffiti from tube carriage walls was published, Lord claimed at a Greater London Assembly meeting earlier this year, without mentioning LFG specifically, that there was ‘evidence of people creating graffiti and then removing it’. He then went on to claim that this evidence was being ‘investigated by the relevant authorities’. Crikey!
Only it transpires that TfL, er, don’t appear to have any evidence that people – whether LFG volunteers or otherwise – were vandalising public transport. A response to a Freedom of Information request asking for details of this evidence