Mayor Ken powerless
 

London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who controls the city's underground commuter train system, said he's powerless to force a contractor to improve its maintenance of the Northern Line because he's bound by contracts signed before he took over. London Underground's Northern Line, the rail system's busiest, shut Oct. 12-14 after a series of emergency-brake failures on trains. City transportation chief Robert Kiley yesterday said Alstom SA's 20-year agreement to maintain trains on the line should be scrapped because of the breakdowns.

(source: Bloomberg)

REd Ken powerless
 

If only!:)

Then I could drive my huge 4x4 into central london with out paying him!...and before anyone critisizes me for driving a big 4x4, its used for railway emergency work and major incidents.

Ringo

No critisisim from me, even if you owned it, if you got it enjoy it!

U'ground breakdowns. Anybody who thinks machines never break down is either in cloud cuckoo land or the Stone Age. Kiley and Livingstone might usefully "get a life". How many Shuttles have crashed? Best brains in the world, etc etc. The people who do the work are not those who sign the contracts. I do not hear Kiley rushing to do "quality control/ final inspections" to shew the engineers how tis done.

Surely you qualify for an exemption from the CC? Can you claim it off your company?

Sam