• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Caroline Pidgeon (AM): Mr Mayor, last year TfL ended with a £91 million operating surplus, largely made up from fares revenue and predictions so far this year look like around £32 million additional revenue. So this would mean that you potentially do not have to put up fares by 5.2%, according to the formula that TfL tends to use. Will you agree, and you have been saying that you want to do everything you can to be reasonable in tough times, will you agree to look at targeted fare reductions by perhaps introducing a one-hour bus ticket, early bird fares...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Roger Evans (AM): Thank you, Chair. We have various rumours circulating about police properties within my constituency as well. I think what we would all like to see is some sort of process behind the way these are announced. Rather than things leaking out through rumour and possibly misinterpretation in some cases of letters that come out of Scotland Yard. Can you make sure that there is a proper process around this so that we do not get campaigns set up, for example, in places where the police station is not going to close?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Yes. To be helpful, he referred to a consultation earlier which is a consultation about rolling out of the local policing model. I think you and everyone here will agree that the history of the Metropolitan Police Service and its approach, shall we state, has been somewhat random in its decision making around the closure of the estate in the past. I would like to perhaps share with you, and hopefully you all agree that I believe that there is a process. The process is around the consultation of the policing model. Unusually, for the Metropolitan Police...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Andrew Dismore (AM): I am sure the people of Hampstead would be interested to know that you consider their police station to be a 'stalag'. However, it cannot be right, can it, that the first the local people knew, the council knew or indeed I knew about the plan to close it was a leaked story in the Ham & High newspaper. Because it was not in your original published list. So just to follow up Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): I was speaking generally, Andrew. Andrew Dismore (AM): Will you now at least promise to have a full and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, John Biggs just mentioned the cable car [Emirate Air Line]. That was a project that was an idea of yours and our revered Chairman which was taken up and completed during the course of the mayoralty. How many people rode on it during the Olympic period?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Thank you. I must turn to the Upper Norwood extension because clearly that is something we are all very passionate about. It may be a small scheme, small but perfectly formed, just like Mr Biggs himself, however, what I would say is, would you not agree with me that it was wrong of the previous Mayor to give false hope to the people of Upper Norwood around a scheme that was never funded? The money was never there and only you recognised that, Mr Mayor, when you came into office.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Richard Tracey (AM): Mr Mayor, do you remember in 2011 when the Labour Party Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said that all departments including the Police would have to make savings in these hard times that we live in? Also, are you aware that there has been a poll conducted which shows that four-fifths of the public think that the efficiency of the Police depends on how well they are run, not how many numbers and how much money is available?

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Steve O'Connell (AM): Mr Mayor, I am sure that in the coming months and years this tortuous conversation about statistics and numbers will be repeated, so we must anticipate that. Importantly to our residents, the point I made earlier, is that crime is going down. You made a commitment to extra police on the neighbourhoods and we must keep the confidence of the public up. Mr Mayor, would you agree with me that those are the things that matter to Londoners, but also there is a place for this organisation through Joanne's (McCartney) Chairmanship of the Police and Crime Committee...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Andrew Boff(AM): Just as an aside, Mr Mayor, I am one of those 10% in Hackney who cycle, and it has got to the point in some areas where the cyclists are actually being resented, especially -- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Do you mean cyclists are breeding resentment? Andrew Boff (AM): Along places like -- Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Not resentment amongst motorists? Andrew Boff (AM): On places like Broadway Market where the attitude of some cyclists is really quite appalling to pedestrians and other road users. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Are they condescending and snooty and...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Caroline Pidgeon (AM): Accessible transport to the park is going to be key to legacy, and I welcome your announcement to keep routes at 16 stations for the time being, but there is a further 17 stations that could benefit from such routes. Will you commit to making all of these stations permanently step free from street to train, just by the use of these manual ramps?