• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

Thank you, Mr Mayor. To return to the Thames Gateway Bridge question and one or two points that Mr Biggs just raised: The appropriate safeguards that he referred to were £12 million worth of money for all four boroughs affected by opposite ends of the bridge for transport mitigation measures. To put that into context, the bridge that would have landed at Galleons Reach would have been a six lane road bridge that conveniently would link up the -- well traffic would be able to travel through to the A2 and the A20. Now to do that, on the south...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

So what is the environmental difference then in a road crossing via a bridge - tolled or not tolled; maybe you will tell us that or what the thinking is around that - as opposed to a bridge crossing? If the environmental considerations for the bridge crossing are still --, why is it any different?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2009

Mayor, I have some concerns from my constituents about the service on the Woolwich Ferry which has been disrupted recently for refurbishment. Can you just update us on what is going on there and assure us that the service will be improved in future?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Again on shared space, I just wanted to make sure that you appreciated there is a huge amount of mythology around shared space. There are of course masses of already shared space streets in London, not least around Covent Garden. I myself live on a shared space street - a mews in Marylebone - and many of them do not have pavements. I just wondered, in looking at shared space, whether you had considered comparing those streets which are already shared and their accident record - particularly in relation to blind and other disabled users - and streets that are...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

On the shared space issue, it is great to hear you say that. Does that mean you are going to speak to Kensington and Chelsea about their schemes and ask them to just stop until we have had a full examination from all disabled organisations? Secondly, does it mean that you will tell Transport for London (TfL) that they must not fund any schemes that have not been properly vetted?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Thank you, Chair. Can I, on behalf of my Group, congratulate our colleague, Jennette Arnold, on her recognition and also Sir Peter Rogers on his. It is indeed the LDA that I want to raise with you, Mr Mayor, because I was concerned to hear about the latest financial discrepancies there have been. I thought that the LDA was pretty much decontaminated from the situation in which you inherited it from its predecessor. Can you assure us now that systems are in place to make sure that the budget is balanced and that monies are accounted for in that organisation?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I would like to return to the shared streets issue because although the scheme looks very attractive - we have all seen the visuals - it is obviously important that all users need to be considered. I know that your colleague, Munira Mirza [Director of Policy for Arts, Culture and Creative Industries], is also aware of the issue of parking for coaches for schools visits, for educational visits, in order to improve access to the sites - these are, after all, iconic museums - and the visuals that we have seen tend to show almost bare streets. I think it...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

Mr Mayor, is not our responsibility the prevention of accidents in the first place, not just simply reducing them and that, whilst I understand Kit's [Malthouse] financial approach to the issue a socio-cost analysis does not really help us to live up to our moral obligations?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 June 2009

I was just going to come in on the same issue if I may because, as you say, many of us do support the principle of shared space schemes, but we all have to understand the real difficulties that any scheme that relies on a social negotiation between the driver and the public is going to cause fears and dangers and potential problems - Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): That is right. Valerie Shawcross (AM): -- for people with a variety of disabilities, not just visual impairment. I wonder, Mr Mayor, whether or not you would be willing to meet...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 May 2009

Mr Mayor, you quite rightly mentioned that we have to prepare ourselves for when the spike in house prices returns and suddenly this funding hiatus is over. Can we use this opportunity do you think, Mr Mayor, to review some of the housing schemes in which the Greater London Authority (GLA) is a partner? I am thinking here specifically of Barrier Park East where the local need - and you have said about the London need for housing - is not really matched by the plans that the London Development Agency (LDA) has put in place for that particular development.