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

I have an obsession with the Thames Gateway Bridge. I appreciate it is a very contentious issue, although I would remind you and the meeting that it is the one road crossing in a package which includes six, I think, rail crossings. So that's six rail crossings, one road crossing. My constituents and those Members representing south London are continuing to be plagued by the problems and the congestion at the Blackwall Tunnel. I have two questions: first is, is it still the case that the funding is secured for the Thames Gateway Bridge, because obviously with the slippage of...

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

Commissioner, I am not as obsessed with the Cross River Tram as Ms Shawcross, or indeed as many of my Labour council colleagues in Camden, who are obsessed with the Cross River Tram, in the complete opposite direction from Ms Shawcross. Will you accept that there are serious concerns about this development in South Camden, in Somers Town and Bloomsbury, and other areas that the proposal passes through? Many people do not consider it a solution to overcrowding on the Northern Line, which again I experienced this morning, having to stand all the way from Finchley Central to London Bridge...

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

Yes. I think the project is very popular south of the river. Just one last question: I am not entirely satisfied with that, I have to say, because it is not about judging the outcome of the business case; it is about ensuring investment goes into the work being done.

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

Given that in south London we are still waiting to find our place in the queue for a number of these key projects ' and I appreciate that you are looking at the broader transport capacity issues for south London ' it seems to me that the quickest relief would be to continue some investment in the bus network in areas of pressure. Have we seen an end to growth in bus service provision?

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

Peter, all I want to hear is that you want this tram as much as I do. I think that is what I want to hear.

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

I think that what you could do, Peter, is commit to action. There is no letter, no statement of apology to users. I use this station regularly and where you are providing stair access for the majority of people who can use them, then I think that what people with any sort of disability deserve is a huge apology and a notice saying that.

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

That implies reducing the private vehicle capacity of the bridge, does it not?

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

Thank you very much indeed. Yes, Peter; perhaps I did ask you to gaze into a crystal ball with that question. You rightly tapped into my main obsession here, which is making sure that there are significant developments in the commuter passenger infrastructure in south London and that these are pushed in the CSR 2010. There has been concern in the minds of the public in my area that the focus on Crossrail ' and I very strongly support Crossrail as a strategic, economic project for London ' has meant that there is anxiety that some of the schemes you...

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

Thank you for that, Peter. A couple of things: there is mischief afoot, because it has been said that safety is not one of the criteria used by TfL when looking around reconfiguring a gyratory. From what you are saying, which I thank you for, that is mischief. The other thing, of course, is that you attached a project manager to the Stoke Newington gyratory. We certainly have not received an update recently and I wonder if you could arrange for that to be done so that we can be clear about not the rationale, but the key factors that...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

There is not enough time to argue about the figures we have. Perhaps we could deal with that off-line. Could you just tell me, would you encourage and support South West Trains to look at rezoning Kingston and Surbiton from zone 6 to zone 5?