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

You will not be recommending a fare cut?

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

Given that projections have shown that traffic congestion will increase by around 30% by 2025, even with all those increases in public transport capacity that we have talked about this morning, that shows that we do need a longer term grand plan in terms of major investment and major funding and not just think about what we are doing in the next couple of years and so on.

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

There is a lot of detail here, which we have not managed to get to yet and I can understand that you have not got that available with you. I do not want to talk about it in detail now, but can you give us a date by which you will be able to answer these questions?

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

Have you got a plan to catch that up or are you going to be saying to Londoners, 'Look, you will have to do without some of the stations being improved' as a bare minimum consequence of this?

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

I think it is the longer term that we really need to be thinking about. I noticed that, in response to Val's [Shawcross] question at the start, in your wish list of major infrastructure projects that you would be looking to bid for government funding for, there were some welcome rail schemes and DLR and tram schemes and so on, but no major funding that you are bidding for for cycling and walking or travel demand management.

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

We can discuss the details of the contract in the future underneath the question relating to that when we get to it. I would not want to pre-empt that now. You did mention Trans4m and we know that Metronet was behind with its stations programme and that Trans4m was failing before this happened. Has that programme been caught up with or has it fallen further behind in the time since then?

• 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...