• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Yesterday I was with some residents in my constituency and we were at a campaign at just such a crossing. Mayor (Ken Livingstone): Was it at Theobolds Road? Jennette Arnold (AM): No, further up, that is not as bad as this one. This, I am told, has one of the most dangerous phases. This is the one off Holloway Road, just down from Drayton Park. Mayor (Ken Livingstone): No, I do not know that one. Jennette Arnold (AM): That is said by officers to be the most dangerous, but yet we do not seem to be able to get any...

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

One of the ways you are financing air conditioning would be of course to use some of this oil deal money you are doing with Venezuela. Can you confirm that Peter Hendy (Commissioner of Transport for London) has now just gone out to Venezuela to further negotiate on your oil deal?

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

I had a very helpful supplementary which is many, many years ago I visited Moscow where they have incredibly hot summers, and the way they manage overheating on their subway system is worth looking at. Will you be consulting with the Mayor of Moscow!

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Moving back on to the issue of water on the tube. Given that this might enhance the tourist experience in London, are you concerned then that when they complete their tube journey, all refreshed, that their views of London might be affected by the latest London View Management Framework, and does that need to be looked at!

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I just go back to the issue Geoff [Pope] raised about young Londoners' fare concessions. Jennette Arnold in discussions earlier on this morning with the students from her constituency was informed that many of these fare concessions do not apply to school holidays, and it seems unnecessary to just focus these concessions on school trips and not other trips that they may want to take to enjoy London. Mayor (Ken Livingstone): While this has gone on I have found the answer to Geoff Pope's question [question 1307/2007]: Increasing the discount from 30% to 50% on the tickets would reduce...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I am very supportive of the Mayor's robust defence of democracy and the democratic process as regards term limits. I voted against such a suggestion when the Bill was in the House of Commons. However, one other amendment that we should all be celebrating from yesterday was the amendment allowing this Assembly to decide upon the Mayoral Budget by a simple majority, a democratic majority, rather than the ridiculous two thirds majority that currently applies. The question is, as the Mayor is so supportive of the democratic process, will he, in his intention to spend Londoners' money fighting one particular...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I welcome the announcement you have made because it is something that I have been pushing for for a while, and that is for you to be mindful of the impact of rises on those communities that can least afford it. Can you just answer the question that I have had put to me, and it came from residents around the Archway Gyratory: having found a substantial amount like £38 million, why did you not think of investing it in sorting out this awful blot on the landscape in this area, that makes so many peoples' lives a misery? It...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Mayor, you have obviously come round to the One London party view on fixed terms, because when you were talking eloquently on the Greater London Authority Bill eight or nine years ago you were very much in favour. However, I will leave that to one side.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Can I ask about the bus fares firstly. There was £38 million more revenue than expected, which has allowed you to cut the price of a single journey from £1 to 90 pence. How `future-proof' is that cut? Do you expect revenues to continue growing at that rate?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I have one other question; it is something that we have touched on before at these sessions and that is the availability of Oyster cards and the fact that people may still use cash. I know that there has been a scheme to give free Oyster cards out. I am wondering how that is going and what the uptake of that has been?