• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

You mentioned line upgrades as well, in your response to Mr Pope. Which of the line upgrades are under threat?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

In previous years, revenue exceeding the budgeting line has not stopped you putting fares up. Perhaps I can re-phrase my question in a way that you will feel comfortable in answering. Will you be recommending to the Mayor that fares increase to pay for what has happened with Metronet?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I find it extraordinary that you do not have a more detailed idea of the financial position and what we are either going to have to pay or what cloth we are going to have to cut, because it has been some time now since Metronet went into administration and it has been some time since Transport for London decided to bid for these contracts. Now at the very least, when you bid for the contracts you must have a clear idea of how much it is going to cost TfL and how much it is going to cost Londoners...

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

I wonder if I could talk to you about the famous - or at least the notorious - Hanger Lane gyratory system. I remember when I first started at LBC radio, as I was learning to do the traffic news, we found that that was one of the systems that we constantly described every day in the traffic news as being a nightmare, and it is a nightmare. I wonder whether that is a gyratory system that you would look at, but on the other hand, if you were to look at it, I cannot for the life of me...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

For example, we have been talking to TfL about increasing cycling by 400%. Now we think that that is possible, but it is probably not possible with some of the worst of these gyratories. I think TfL has got a list of 20 pretty bad gyratories when it comes to walking and cycling. It seems to me, if you are spending £7 billion on what you expect to deliver a 1% modal shift out of cars onto public transport, then surely you can afford to spend a couple of billion pounds to make people's lives better and to increase walking...

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

My other question relates to the area around the station where there is going to be quite a high increase in housing. I notice that at Tottenham Wharf, just next door, the land has already been flattened and development will soon be taking place. We are in danger of having thousands of extra units built while the gyratory system is still in its very poor state. I know that you are nearly ready to go out to public consultation on your scheme but it is as yet, I believe, an unfunded scheme. What can be done and is there any...

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

Perhaps, Peter, you would expect me to ask about Tottenham Hale, so I am glad you raised it because the Tottenham Hale gyratory is, quite frankly, appalling. It cuts off the Tube station from any residential area and in fact pedestrians have in fact to negotiate a number of, in effect, dual or triple carriageways in order to get to the station. The points Jenny [Jones] mentioned earlier about the pedestrian experience are extremely important. Can I just ask that in that scheme you look at that very closely and provide a pleasant experience for pedestrians who need to use...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Can I just pursue this point, to agree with Jenny's point - the fuel poverty point - that by focusing on the affordable housing you get an added social benefit, but the Strategy focuses on the larger strategic developments. Isn't there a lot more that we can be doing given that I think the statistic is that 98% of all residential completions in the last year for which figures were available, were fewer than 100. By focusing on the larger ones we are missing the greater number. Are you satisfied that enough is going on to get the standards up...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Could I stop you there. I have got some questions and not very much time. Perhaps I can ask all my questions then you can just answer as best you can. The first question is how are you going to enforce all this, because that always seems to be the problem with councils actually being able to enforce codes. My view on all this, about trying to get to Level 3, is that it is just utterly unambitious. If you think that the houses we build now are going to be here for at least 50 years and possibly 100...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What about enforcement?