• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

The other part of my question then which is possibly from a Union perspective, you and I have, in different ways, done work with the T&G (Transport and General Workers' Union) down the years and the classic problem for bus drivers is that the wider world expects bus crews to push towards a policing role. That is clearly not their job, it makes them insecure and it does not address the problems. Now I fully understand that among TSSA staff there will be a fear that people who have been doing very good jobs in the office are being pushed...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I just be clear; you are saying that somebody cannot be employed to sell 28 tickets a day? Does that mean that that person is going to lose their job and that is a salary saved, or what?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I have two very simple questions; the first is, just to be local, my constituents in Dagenham, where there have been a number of incidents around stations, will want to be reassured that this does not mean that it will be impossible to find a member of staff. Therefore, are you clear that within TfL, within the Underground, this is going to be properly managed so that if someone has a problem at a station they can press a button or whatever and they can find someone who can address their concerns immediately? There is a concern among the public...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Four of these stations where the ticket office is not going to be open any more are in my constituency, and three of these are on either the Metropolitan or Jubilee lines. Both lines of course are getting substantial investment, which we welcome, but the concern is going to be that casual users of those lines, who use them to get to either Wembley Arena or Wembley Stadium or to get to the centre of London for the other tourist attractions, will now be discriminated against because there will not be a way of them buying tickets except through cash...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Before he left us last year, Jay Walder [former Managing Director for Finance, Transport for London] told us that London Underground, indeed Transport for London, had the most complicated ticket system that any of the public sector transport bodies he knew about had. How are people going to get help with this complex system at the stations where ticket offices have been closed?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Mr Mayor, I am really concerned about people who cannot get a ticket. TfL is not slow in getting people who are travelling on the Underground without a ticket in front of the courts. If the machine has broken down, you have just said in reply to another question that when they get to the end of their journey they can say, `Oh there was no ticket machine working' and TfL will investigate. How will they do that? Will they do that there and then? Will people have to leave their details so that they can be contacted later? Because...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

There are three in my constituency; West Finchley of course I use on a daily basis as it is at the bottom of the road I live in. I am the Councillor for the area including Totteridge and Whetstone Station. Particularly around West Finchley, over the years there have been many rumours of the station's imminent closure. For my residents living at Mill Hill East - where we have recently downgraded the Northern Line service in that it is now a shuttle from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East, rather than a through service, and with that hugely expensive viaduct...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I used to go out with the Simon Community every Sunday morning at 5 am to do a soup and sandwiches run. It is perfectly true that the figures for the homeless are far higher than anything the Government ever put forward. We used to do a little circuit of a bit of Camden and South Westminster. Judging from today's Evening Standard, you seem to think that we have got quite a lot of time on our hands, so I was just wondering if perhaps you and all of us could turn up on one Sunday morning and do a...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Where then do you stand on your election pledge that crime would be cut by 50% once the neighbourhood teams have been rolled out and policing numbers have risen?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

The Assembly report is absolutely clear. You quote one part of it, but if you look at another part it says that there are concerns that London's long-term plan of regeneration is repeating the weakness of previous Games, and that the previous Games had practically no legacy of permanent employment results. My issue is this; I have looked at the jobs that have been lost, and there seem to be about 5,000 jobs that have gone from that area forever. Some have been exported to Essex; OK, fine, people are still working, but the employers who were in that area...