• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

That will obviously go a long way to improving safety at these stations, which have long been neglected, but other issues that would affect safety ' I know you have some ideas on this ' would be to put in Oyster card readers, again harking back to fare evasion issues, and also being able to lock the stations at night. Because some of them are not lockable or they have not been at the moment and they become a magnet for undesirable elements in the community and residents often complain about what is happening on their local stations. Do you...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I wondered whether the remit of the staff on the Overground will be in part to look after and maintain the bridges over which the overland trains run. I have had my attention drawn to a particular bridge where it is in a disgraceful state of disrepair and the flood damage from the summer has not even been touched yet. Is that something which now falls to the staff of the Overground or is that still a Network Rail issue?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

On the subject of security at stations, are you aware, Commissioner, of the security problem of criminals fitting scanning devices on chip and pin machines at our tube station? We have had two at West Finchley in the last few weeks. They seem to have moved on from banks to tube stations. Will you be taking appropriate action? Sally Hamwee (Chair): I think the question is, 'and will you make sure it does not go onto the London Overground?' Brian Coleman (Deputy Chairman): Indeed.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Can I write to you about that then?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

This is all waste material left over from the floods, making it very slippery, and there is a lot of urinating in the tunnel underneath and a lot of bird droppings, which are making it incredibly dangerous to walk through.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Would you accept, notwithstanding that the majority in this Assembly, possibly with the exception of Brian Coleman, do not support the construction of urban motorway networks, the fact is that east London is continually held to ransom by the lack of road capacity across the Thames there and, providing we get it right, it is a crossing that can be justified. The problems at Blackwall continue to be so severe, in terms of congestion, that any accidents in the tunnel gridlock east London. This is something that needs to be given the highest possible priority. Is there not a contradiction...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I appreciate you cannot make promises for the Government for the future, but you can promise to deliver all those things that you said were prerequisites of successfully getting something like the Cross River Tram through in 2010. You talked about a robust business case and the Transport and Works Act. Now, TfL has been undertaking a major projects review; are you able to promise that you will have a robust business case ready?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Peter, staying with priorities, I wonder if you could just tell us what you think about the priorities given to disabled users of the transport network. I say this because the users of Walthamstow Central are absolutely outraged that, if they have any disability, what they have to face if they arrive there is to wait for staff to help them, or indeed carry them, up 100 stairs. They are told that the lift will not be functional for six months and there is a sign saying that wheelchair access will be built, is a work in progress. What happened...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Just sticking on the Thames Gateway Bridge issue, recently the TfL Board voted unanimously, I believe, to look at the alternatives and the opportunities for enhancing the public transport aspects of the bridge proposal. How wide ranging is that look at the alternatives going to be?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

It is going to be a full, wide-ranging and very comprehensive look at public transport alternatives to the current proposals?