• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You are partly right! I did meet with passengers on the 903 who include some good friends of mine in the Shadwell area, and constituents of course. But I also spent some time in the last month with passengers who use the 953 service in Dagenham. I am not a bus spotter so I will not give you a detailed exposition on its route, but basically --

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I am more interested in the policy issues underlying this, because you are in charge of TfL as Chair.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

OK. Just a small point on CCTV. There were three attacks in Rotherhithe within a short period of time. It is fantastic that we have CCTV on all the buses however and the CCTV on the buses is not as reliable as the CCTV in static locations. There is a 3% failure rate and that seems to be because the CCTV was designed for static locations, rather than being bumped around on buses. Is this something that TfL (Transport for London) will be looking at to try and improve the technology? Having got the CCTV, I think the bus drivers...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

): I think many of us will be relieved to see that these headline figures have been settled because perhaps it might bring to an end some of the very destructive feeding frenzy of debate. We do need to see the Olympics as what it is, which is a massive opportunity for the economy in London, and for London to reach out across the world, as well as regenerating north east London. I know, Mayor, that the Assembly will, quite rightly, want to see much more detail, particularly of the ODA budget and plans. You mentioned that we could be...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Can I just go back to the announcement that you made, almost as an aside, about the new Safer Transport Teams. From my point of view, and I am still an outer London borough resident - I live in Croydon - there has been a real revolution in bus safety in the last few years, and this is very, very welcome. One of the key issues is, in maximising the benefit of having these Safer Transport Teams, as well as the work of TOCU (Transport Occupational Command Units) and all of the police work that is going on now on...

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

Equally?

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

Certainly on night flights!

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

Thank you, Mr Mayor, for making reference to a significant part of my own constituency which is Heathrow. Heathrow is not included within your Low Emission Zone Policies. It is specifically excluded at the moment. How far have you got with your negotiations to have it included?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

A final point is just going back to the runways, because obviously the tax helps but if the capacity is not there then you are choking off the demand. Can you just repeat what you said in terms of the commitments that you are putting in the London Plan about additional runway capacity?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Specifically, a lot of this stuff is regulated in Europe, as indeed it needs to be given that flights take off from here and land somewhere else and have to be refuelled there unless you get a Europe wide approach. I have studied the programme of our European Office in Brussels, and I cannot see any action that they have succeeded in taking yet to lobby successfully on this issue. Will you assure us that, in terms of the funding we are putting into the European Office, they are lobbying Brussels on these fuel tax issues?