'Vanity project!' Sadiq Khan blasted for 'squandering hard-earned cash' on woke Overground rebrand
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Sadiq Khan has been accused of "squandering Londoners' hard-earned cash" on a "woke vanity project" as a new rebrand of the capital's Overground train lines comes into force today.
Overground trains will today see six new names for each of the network's six lines as part of a £6.3million-valued redesign, including the Windrush line, Suffragette line and Lioness line.
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But with London in the midst of a crime epidemic and a homelessness crisis, the latter of which Khan spent just £4.8million on yesterday, the Mayor is under fire again.
Neil Garratt, the leader of the City Hall Conservatives, laid into the spending splurge as a "spectacular waste of money".
The controversially-named lines' rollout starts today
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The names of the new lines have been branded a 'woke vanity project'
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He told GB News: "Spending £6.3million to rename Overground lines without any improvement to the service looks like a spectacular waste of money, compared to just £4.8million the Mayor recently announced to tackle homelessness.
"That should have been his priority, where this money could have made a real difference to Londoners who are really struggling.
"Instead, he's wasting it on a vanity project.
"It's another wrong choice from a Mayor who's wasted eight years in office - and is now desperately seeking a legacy."
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Neil Garratt blasted the Mayor for spending more on the rebrand than on a recent anti-homelessness drive
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The Mayor has been accused of 'desperately seeking a legacy' through the new 'woke' Overground lines
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William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, separately argued that the Mayor's priorities were in the wrong place entirely.
Speaking to GB News, Yarwood said: "Londoners will be furious that their hard-earned cash is being squandered on another of Sadiq Khan's woke vanity projects.
"Commuters in the capital just want their trains to be clean and run on time rather than being subjected to virtue-signalling nonsense.
"Khan needs to get his priorities straight."
The new Overground lines 'celebrate the city's diverse culture and history', TfL has said
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Transport for London (TFL) says the rebrand will make it easier for passengers to navigate the network by moving away from the previously used solid orange line.
TFL has also hailed the new lines as a way to "celebrate the city's diverse culture and history".
Some 6,000 station signs, Tube maps, digital screens, onboard train information, online services and visual announcements on trains and stations will be updated as part of the scheme.
The total 113 London Overground stations will start to see the controversial changes take hold from November 25.
A spokesman for the Mayor of London told GB News: "Customer research showed that renaming the lines would help passengers navigate the Overground and to encourage more people to confidently use public transport.
"The Mayor is proud of these new names that honour and reflect London's diverse communities and histories."
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