• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Would you agree with me as well then that there is something wrong with a system which allows you to go through months of public inquiry to agree the Transport Strategy and the London Plan, both of which support the construction of this bridge, and then when you go to apply for the bridge itself you have to re-examine every single one of those points in minute detail over again? Consequent to that, it may well be that we can't achieve the housing numbers that the Government is seeking and that we would like to provide in East London, that...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

I would like to know or have you assure me that these junctions that perhaps are particularly near schools would get priority over the other junctions, because that would seem to me the most sensible place to start.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

The reason I asked this question is because I have been working with Haringey Living Streets campaign who are trying to get, especially on bus priority routes, some of the very dangerous junctions to include a pedestrian green-man crossing. For example, there is one at the junction of Green Lanes and Frobisher Road, which is very near a primary school, where parents have to cross a very congested route, made worse by the number of buses that use the route as well. I noticed one of the junctions has been flagged up by Transport for London as needing work, but...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

So the development work on this continues and it does not get thrown into suspension by the review?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Clearly you have thought about this issue. I just think it is very important to keep the local residents on board and they have made their views quite clear; that it goes round Somers Town rather than through Somers Town. I personally think it is not too much to expect people to walk between Euston and King's Cross.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Mr Mayor, all that I have learnt from Richard Barnes and my colleagues in Ealing on how to oppose the West London Tram I shall be deploying in opposing the Cross River Tram. The point on Somers Town, which Murad Qureshi in his flying visit there a few weeks ago slightly missed, is that Camden Council has done a significant amount of work to make that estate a holistic ' I hate to use that New Labour word ' estate; as you will know, they have invested substantially in security measures, in CCTV (closed circuit television), in reducing crime, drug...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

I just want to draw your attention to one of the specifics from the survey about the options for Euston and King's Cross, where it suggests that 55% of people support the option going through Somers Town. Could I ask that local residents' views get a higher weighting than those in other boroughs which are not as affected by the possibility of the tram going through Somers Town, and that also consideration be taken about access to public services like St. Pancras Hospital; Option 1 clearly has benefits for those going to the hospital there.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

That was where I was coming to, because what I would be concerned about would be if this review or the period of anxiety about funding would mean that development work on the project would cease. Are you absolutely clear that development work on the Cross River Tram project will continue as expected? There is a lot of surveying, drawing, further consultation and planning work to be done as part of this project which could be got out of the way.

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

Are you still spending money on the West London Tram?

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

What about their front gardens?