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

Are we not in a position where you are meeting one set of targets and failing on another? The fact is that they are not able to be pursued in the same way. You have to get a balance between getting people safely across the road but you have to get the traffic moving.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

On others it would be more dangerous. Can I refer you to a particular road where you would be almost committing suicide if you crossed with your eyes closed; that is Horn Lane in Acton where, sadly, a gentleman was killed only last week. In 2005 TfL promised the then Labour administration that a crossing would be put in on Horn Lane. It has not happened. It was relatively recently voted one of the worst roads in the whole of the country. When is Transport for London, which you chair, going to live up to its responsibilities and bring Horn...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I would agree with that, but the former point, given that it has to be a partnership with the boroughs, and you have acknowledged there is a role for the boroughs, to then demand to have control of the board was not a partnership.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The Government offered you the Chair and four places on the Board and you have taken your bat and ball and will not play. It is a bit rich to then complain in your report to us what a shambles it is, if you will not actually join in, however unhappy you are about where ultimate responsibility sits. Can I ask you specifically about funding, because on Monday the Government announced £60 million of money that already goes to the boroughs. They have recycled it, but the original plan was that you were going to put in £6 million a...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

How much is all that going to cost? When will we know?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

It is because they do not want you to take them to the cleaners like you did to Metronet.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Over the coming decade?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

That was a negotiating position. The Arbiter's job is to look at all of the details and he found that significant amounts of Metronet work were done efficiently and because London Underground mismanaged these contracts and allowed more work to be done, the costs, in his opinion, were between £370 million and £1 billion. How are you going to stop that happening in the future, given London Underground's poor track record?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Are you saying that the Arbiter is lying when he is saying that there are lessons for London Underground to learn? Are you?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are not listening to my point about London Underground being culpable for at least £370 million.