• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Do you not think you should have a plan B there? It is all very well to tell us that all this infrastructure is going to be put in, but the track record of infrastructure going in in these huge developments, not necessarily matters for which you have responsibility, could well mean that all these affordable houses and other houses are built, but the people are going to be marooned there. They are going to be in places with very poor transport links; they are going to be in places where there are going to be relatively few schools, very...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I am pleased to hear that you are standing by what you said in the prospectus because the prospectus, as you rightly say, forecasts 100,000 new homes but in July you told the London Assembly that you were only forecasting 40,000 new homes. Which of the two figures is correct?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Daniel Moylan [Chairman, London Councils' Transport & Environment Committee & Deputy Leader, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea] has made it clear that every single new traffic light got the approval of TfL. Would that be correct?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The congestion levels would suggest that it is not and the fact is that idling cars are causing pollution.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Congestion levels prove that you have not.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

They obviously have a knock on effect.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Would you agree with me, and I would think Peter Hendy too, that the proliferation of these traffic lights, whoever is responsible for putting them in, is actually a cause of the fact that congestion levels are creeping back to very high levels again?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The problem is of course that traffic lights causing congestion equals traffic lights causing unnecessary pollution.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I am saying there should be a balance.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

We have talked about the number of traffic lights but another issue of course is the re-phasing of traffic lights. I hear what you say about national standards and we have had this before, you and I: `Ken equals red lights' and all that back in 2002, when the re-phasing started. The key to good traffic management and the responsibility of TfL, may I suggest, is to get the balance right. Yes, of course pedestrians need to cross safely but also you need to keep the traffic flowing. Would it not be fair to say that in many ways, because...