• 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?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can I also urge you to include modifications to improve safety in driving standards as well because this Assembly in its last term identified driving standards as being a major problem on the bus fleet.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Can you tell us when you will announce the terms of your design competition for the new Routemaster and what -

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

What, if any, guidelines will you be setting for the design and will it have an open rear platform and need conductors?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Will it also be a priority on the new buses to design out crime because crime and anti social behaviour and vandalism blighted the service under your predecessor and put off a lot of people from using it? Will that be a priority too?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Will you also ensure in the design of the bus which is to replace the bendy bus that fare evasion is addressed as a priority because, of course, the existing bendy buses became known as free buses; nobody paid. If you address fare evasion not only will you improve the design but you will actually recoup some money back as well and may be able to afford some of the extra bells and whistles that Darren wants.

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

At the last Mayor's Question Time you said that you would put conductors but they would not be traditional conductors taking fares, they would be there to help people on and off the bus. Can I ask how you can reconcile those two things and cut down on the fare evasion point that Roger Evans mentioned if your new generation Routemaster will be a hop on hop off and you are not going to have anyone there checking fares?

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

Well Route 73 ends next May, so are you going to replace it or are you going to get a new service in?

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

When you initiate the competition for the new Routemaster would you please consider asking the entrants to specifically consider alternatives to hybrid engines, namely hydrogen engines? There is a strong strain of thought that says hybrid technology is a temporary solution pending the development of new heavy-duty hydrogen engines and a promulgation of the supply of hydrogen throughout London. What I would hate to see is for you commission a new Routemaster with hybrid technology that then becomes redundant and ends up costing Londoners more within a short space of time. The other aspect of course which many, many Londoners...