• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It is interesting that you have suddenly found an interest in security on the suburban transport networks, something which, of course, the Conservative group on the Assembly was advocating in its alternative budgets for many years before you cottoned on to the idea! Do you accept that one consequence of the scheme is, regrettably I am sure, to increase the burden upon policing in outer London?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Now we have established that, let us move back to the policing question which we were on before we shifted. Could you just say again how many of those 378 extra police officers will be there to control the unregulated travel scheme?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

What I will do is gather them up and send them to you

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It is all a bit creative, isn't it really?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

No doubt something very nasty happened in about 1900 as far as the drivers of the horse drawn omnibuses as well.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I do think that is an idiotic thing to say. I was a mature student. I struggled to pay for a card so I cycled, which was much better for me and better for London. So please do not extend this any more. It is bad enough as it is.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Can you say, in view of the high cost and the difficulties, that this scheme will not be extended any further?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

The question is, Mr Mayor, what is the true cost to Londoners? How much is being foregone by TfL? On your figures, multiplying one by the other, it is, as pointed out, £132 million. Now you say it is between £60 million and £70 million. It cannot be both, Mr Mayor. It has to be one or the other and, if you are running a large budget as Chair of TfL, for God's sake get your sums right.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

They get spat at.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I am sure it was. Your capacity for misremembering history knows no bounds! Perhaps you will do as my constituents suggest and spend a bit of time on some of the buses in South East London, on the 161 bus. Perhaps you would like to come with me late at night, and see what the drivers have to put up with?