• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

If I may, thank you very much for your answer, Mr Mayor. I think this is a great example of how we can engage young people in worthwhile activities and also break down the barriers often between young people and the police. The police are very involved in this piece of work, both financially and in time, in partnership with the football clubs in our different boroughs; Crystal Palace - I declare an interest as a lifelong supporter - in Croydon and Sutton. What are also important are the statistics. At the time when these activities are going on there...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Thank you, Mayor. I will turn very quickly to overground stations designing out crime around the British Rail stations under your remit. I think it is very important to flag up that when we are looking at new stations and work around new stations, particularly for example East Croydon Station, we need to look at designing out crime around the overground network, Mayor. Do you wish to very quickly comment upon that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

We all know here that you are a person of extreme common sense and hugely good judgement -

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

OK. Does that mean therefore that you will be putting additional double decker services on those routes in order to make up the capacity that will be lost by the removal of the bendy buses?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Mayor, you have mentioned several times, I think, that you will be phasing out the bendy buses as the contracts expire, and of course at the moment the competition for the design and production of the new Routemaster has not actually started. There are six routes of the bendy bus contract which are due to lapse next summer. What would your plans be to replace those routes?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

So if costs prove prohibitive and it was a choice between a conventional diesel Routemaster - - or a hybrid double decker of the design that we have at the moment, which side of the fence would you be on?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

So you would abandon the Routemaster in favour of greener buses?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

A quick answer, Mr Mayor. Will you be seeking in the competition to find a British bus designer for the new bus rather than going abroad?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

At the last Mayor's Question Time you indicated that these staff would purely be there to help passengers on and off with luggage. Now you are saying they are going to be enforcement conductors?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

That is what we want to achieve. I think you have already said Londoners want results and they want value for money and we agree with that. I think they also want to get on the buses and they want their children to get on the buses and they certainly want to get on the buses in central London. When will we expect some proposal from you for what you will replace these six lapsing routes with?