What a total waste of money! Furious Londoners react to the news that mayor Sadiq Khan’s TfL spent 6million renaming the Overground lines to be more ‘inclusive’ rather than sorting out the reliability of services [Video]

08:58 EST 15 Feb 2024 , updated 10:38 EST 15 Feb 2024

Londoners today condemned Mayor Sadiq Khan‘s £6.3 million rebranding of the TFL Overground lines as a ‘pathetic waste of money’.

Hard-working travellers urged the capital’s leader to spend the money on making the train service run better rather than giving them ‘poxy new names’.

The London Overground services will be rebranded as six new lines in autumn this year.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan claims – the Lioness line, the Mildmay line, the Windrush line, the Weaver line, the Suffragette line and the Liberty line – will ‘honour and celebrate London’s unique local history and culture.

But today passengers waiting to alight the London Overground at Stratford – soon to be renamed the Mildmay line – condemned the £6.3m rebranding.

Hugh Griffiths, 64, a construction worker from Plaistow, told MailOnline: ‘I think it’s a complete waste of money.