As a Londoner it is reasonable to say Mayor Khan has failed to deliver immediate budget savings including some cuts. There are too many buses running on the same stretches of road causing lots of congestion.
Mayor Khan should be held responsible as during Covid he was running as full service as possible with no passengers or a couple at best. He should have thinned out the buses to save some cash as well as thinning out the tube.
Services should only have been beefed up with demand was returning. All what Khan can do is to clobber motorists.
As for the night tube, well you can axe that for a start to save some cash. London managed ok before the night tube. Why weren't the fares doubled after midnight to recoup some of the high operating costs?
Trouble with Mayor Khan is that he likes spending bucket loads of tax payers cash. My Council tax element for the Greater London Authority this year went up by 9.5% then the Borough Council and the Social Care precept by another 5% ontop. My Council Tax is touching £2700 a year and the Mayor should be finding ways of cutting services on duplicate routes, reducing overtime and standby, reducing frequency at off peak times and especially on the Grange Hill loop where a service every 30 minutes still would be generous.
@deltic is correct in his opinion above. Thin the buses out and match to demand. Not much of an issue waiting 1 minute longer for a bus to arrive every 5 minutes instead or 4 or a bus every 12 minutes instead of 10.
Another saving that ought to be introduced is to withdraw free universal bus travel for under 16's. Lots of kids using the bus for just one, two or three stops: They could walk that. They should be charged a token rate of say 30p per journey. This would reduce bus planning requirements resulting in further financial savings.
Khan has squanderd income as he has closed down many station car parks. Crazy.