• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I wanted to mention Brent because there are a number of excellent bus services in the borough. I have received a number of complaints in the Willesden area about a street, Staverton Road, where there are three busy bus routes ' it's quite a long road, you probably know it - but no bus stops at all. The residents here have a lot of bus congestion but no accessible service. There is an easy rerouting that could be made via the main high street in Willesden, yet TfL will not budge. The Council and the local MP are very keen...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

They do not need to go via Brook Green do they?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. Of course your initiative on introducing hybrid engine buses is to be welcomed. In recent times you did congratulate the Borough of Richmond for its CBZ carbon initiative. Yesterday you introduced carbon bands for the Congestion Charge. One borough, Richmond, is offering TfL active cooperation on designing new bus priority measures. Will you reward Richmond by giving them priority for the new hybrid engine buses?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. Can we now turn to East London which in your London Plan of course is a priority for regeneration? The transit scheme which is now being proposed is in fact a bus service. When I spoke to you in June you did support that this service should be upgraded to a tram as soon as demand requires it and can demonstrate that a tram is suitable. It does seem that the boroughs are being bullied. I have been informed that they have been told that if you do not like the bus then you will not get any...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

We should not have to come to you to get a meeting. Local representatives should be given a decent dialogue and response from London buses surely?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Speeding buses by the way. Does that mean that no final decision has been made and you are now prepared, on the basis of our discussion this morning, to look even more carefully at this particular area?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Livingstone, they do not want it. You are not giving them something they want. They do not want it. I shall point out to you that even TfL's own assessment is that probably those buses will be carrying on average about six passengers a day from the local area. You may be transporting people at either end of the route hither and thither, but you are not delivering anything apart from six people a day on that local bus route in the area where they do not want it. Would not the sensible thing to do be put the...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Do you have any plans as to how you are going to do that?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. Can you let me know the sort of scheme that you will be promoting with your new housing powers to convert temporary accommodation into permanent social housing?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Is that it? OK. Could you tell me what standards are in place to ensure at least the minimum standards of decency for all current temporary accommodation that is being used, including the private sector, and how can you ensure that these are effectively enforced? We hear horror stories about some forms of temporary accommodation.