• 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?

• 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.