• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I wonder if you are aware that from a hard green point of view - as opposed to wispy green - the fact is, with electric vehicles, you might be cleaning up London's air, which is obviously wonderful for all of us, but you are potentially exporting it because it depends on how the electricity is generated.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

This is a question to the Mayor. You say you are reducing bus kilometres by 1.5%. That does not sound very much, but when you put it into millions of kilometres it is a bit different, isn't it? It is 3.5 million kilometres you are reducing bus kilometres by. Now Peter Hendy, in his Business Plan, also projects a 70 million drop in passengers. It seems to me that you are actually driving people off the buses and back into their cars.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

I think this question can be read in two ways. One is about the number of administration staff in the Surface Transport Department who do whatever they do, the white collar services, if you like, that administer the department; the other is the size of the department as a whole, which is a department which has many hundreds of millions of pounds of spending every year to subsidise bus and other services, but particularly bus services. I think, looking at that other aspect of the question, we see a Surface Transport Department massively reduced in size in terms of the...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

I accept what you are trying to say, or trying to say to us, but I think, in terms of business management - and I do not claim to be a business management expert but it just seems to me common sense - that one man, as managing director, should focus on specific things. Now can I just tell you - you probably know this - from a curriculum vitae from yesterday's seminar upstairs about buses, Mr Brown is said to be in charge of London buses, Public Carriage Office, Dial-a-Ride, Victoria Coach Station, TfL Piers and TfL's corporate interests...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Yes. Speaking as a bourgeois NIMBY, could I please have clarity as to who it is who is going to take the final decision on bus stops? You have told me, Mr Mayor, when I have raised this matter in the past that if the boroughs do not support the relocation of a bus stop, that is the end of the matter. Indeed, I have recent correspondence relating to particular bus stops which are being installed one stop away from the terminus of a bus route, so who on earth do they think is going to get on the bus...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Can I talk to you a bit more about the Elephant and Castle regeneration, Mayor. I think you said there that basically you do support the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle. What I would like to know is exactly what have you done? How have you contributed to the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle in the last nine months?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I was so disarmed by your being nice to me earlier I completely forgot another question I wanted to ask! Given that you are concentrating the costs of the Crossrail within this relatively small area, have you given any guarantees that any cost over runs or extra expenses will not be carried by the whole of London? For example, fare increases or cuts to budgets and that sort of thing. Basically, can you guarantee that any overruns will not be paid for by us?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

I am delighted to hear about you wanting to see the Bakerloo Line extended. Have you got ambitions to see that extended as far as Lewisham?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 25 February 2009

Mr Mayor, will you confirm what Simon Milton said to the Planning and Housing Committee about a flexible approach being taken in these questions? Elephant and Castle has been raised but I also have the Nine Elms regeneration project going on in my constituency and developers there are very concerned that they will not be expected to contribute twice, once to Crossrail and then again to Section 106 agreements.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 09 December 2009

Thank you, Chair. Mayor, you have acknowledged in the last Transport Committee that you attended that there is this gaping gap of two million tonnes of carbon in the Strategy. I am just wondering, with all the measures you have put in place, how you feel that other areas of the GLA are going to be picking up on this. Clearly you should be actually doing as much as you can, through your powers as Chair of TfL, and it seems quite lacking if you look at some of the detail. So, for example, if we look at the 25,000...