• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Joanne McCartney AM: Mr Mayor, I - along with many people here - was very pleased that TfL took over services that were previously on the West Anglia Line out of Liverpool Street up to Enfield Town and Chingford. I must say that London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (LOROL) has worked very hard and the stations are looking much better. However, after the opening and the services were transferred, residents have made many complaints to me. If you look at the London Underground (LU) Twitter feed, even today there are many complaints because a lot of the carriages, it appears...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Darren Johnson AM: Yes. Very quickly, when the Assembly looked at rough sleeping last year, one of the key findings was that in spite of the support services promoted and funded by City Hall, it is very easy in this very fragmented system to fall through the cracks. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Yes. Darren Johnson AM: Do you see that there is a greater co-ordination role for City Hall, working with boroughs on this?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Andrew Boff AM: I indicated quite early and actually Jo McCartney [Joanne McCartney AM] has raised virtually everything I wanted to raise with you and so I am grateful for that. If only to emphasise the point about accreditation, you are absolutely right that we should not close the door to volunteers. We absolutely want to ensure that people are willing to put their names forward as ISVAs as IDVAs, but an accreditation is absolutely vital when you are dealing with somebody in a very vulnerable position. I, too, would like to emphasise that to you, Mr Mayor, and I...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Victoria Borwick AM MP: Thank you. Mr Mayor, if I just follow on briefly on that, I actually speak in that sense for the wider area. Where the Tube lines are open on the surface, they may be hidden behind buildings, for example, fences, gardens and other things. What has happened is that TfL has replaced the old wooden joints with the concrete ones and there is nothing to absorb the vibration. That is part of the upgrade work, the result of which all of us in central London have had complaints, as these thing bed in, about the grinding...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: Just, Mayor, on the back of what Tom Copley has been saying, you say you want to see London jumbled up. In fact, I know you have even put it very eloquently sometimes in the past. “The genius of this great city”, you say, “is that people on no incomes can live cheek-by-jowl with people on higher incomes”, or something like that. If you think this through, what is it going to mean for London’s mixed and balanced communities?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Stephen Knight AM: Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, one of the ways of increasing the supply of new affordable homes is to use the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) own land. When you first became Mayor in 2008, your manifesto made great play of the potential to use GLA-owned land to build homes on. In fact, you promised that you could build 39,000 new homes in London on GLA-owned land. The actual figure that we have seen built on that land since 2008 is only 1,814 as of the end of March this year. Is that not a complete failure to...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Kit Malthouse AM MP: Just on that point, Mr Mayor, do you think it would be more effective if cyclists who were caught going through red lights had their bikes impounded immediately so that their mode of transport is removed and they have to then go somewhere to recover it and pay a fine to get their bike back? As a cyclist myself, the most inconvenient thing is to lose your bike in the middle of a journey and to have to then clack off in boots and Lycra to get the Tube. Cyclists are much more likely to think...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Andrew Boff AM: I have some guests in the audience today, some senior residents from Hackney. In the first question they raised with me today when I asked if they had any issues, their issue was the behaviour of some cyclists in Hackney and how they can become very selfish users of the road. Along with your contribution towards increasing the ability of cyclists to get around London, can you re-emphasise time and time again that cyclists, when they get on a bike, are not the only users on the road and they should pay care and consideration to other...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Roger Evans AM: Thank you, Chair. I am pleased you mentioned outer London, Mr Mayor. You will recall from your visits to Redbridge that there is actually a considerable amount of enthusiasm for cycling in that borough. One of the things that would really help that movement to grow would be the extension of Cycle Superhighway 2 from Stratford to Ilford, which might indeed with a branch actually link into the Mini-Holland that is being developed in Waltham Forest as well. I would just like you to reaffirm your support for that project, which we are certainly waiting for with...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 17 June 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, what you have achieved over the last seven years has to be viewed as pretty spectacular, even by the most militant cyclists. Darren Johnson AM: Incisive scrutiny there, Richard! Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I am grateful, Dick. If anything, I was going to say that was a mild understatement, but you all -- Richard Tracey AM: I wonder what you think that your successor is going to be able to do further than you have with cycling. Could I put a request in that far more happens in the outer London boroughs with...