London garden bridge, ‘a chance to walk through woodlands over one of the greatest rivers in the world’, according to Joanna Lumley. Photograph: Arup/EPA

The news that Boris Johnson has rubber-stamped the garden bridge should come as no surprise. Since taking office he has become the self-styled tsar of novelty infrastructure projects, bestowing London with an empty cable-car the Emirates Airline doesn’t see a single regular user according to recent TfL figures) , a fleet of sweltering buses and misty renderings of a glowing airport floating in the estuary......Continue  Reading

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