• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Why have you said in the last two years, 'Look, if you want me to really refurbish London's Underground and bring it up to standard people are going to have to pay for it' and you were not apologetic for pushing the fares up 10% one year and 10% the next. Would it not have been better to have had a smoother ride on this so that the people did not suffer such high increases during those two years?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

In the past you have been pushing up the cash fares exorbitantly. You said that was to move to a cashless service. Now of course you have backtracked on that and you have a freeze. Does that mean you are going to remove cash only?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

One of the things that Londoners are most supportive of is the Freedom Pass. You usually delight in criticising local councils for the way they run this. Do you hope to take over control of the Freedom Pass financing yourself?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

That really gave us a potted history of some of the features that you felt could sell it, but in fact, of course, the typical traveller is not under 18 and does not get a free fare so these are very much average figures you have been talking about.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

It is not connected with the fact there is an election around the corner? Nothing to do with that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Are you going to push them?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you intend to continue chairing TfL?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I will not comment on your comments about Len, but I voted for him to become Chair of the MPA. Do you feel that the Chair of the MPA, if it is not to be the Mayor, needs to be a Member of the Assembly?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you think it was right for the panel to exclude opposition to Heathrow expansion from the London Plan Amendments, and do you think this is yet more evidence of the Government simply working to try to neutralise the opposition?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

This is very interesting but, bringing it back to today, the Government is now using these 50 decibels of Concorde ' which went in and out over a minute ' to allow nearly 200 747s. I would be amazed if 200 were able to get in,but it would be an all night noise quota from 747s.