• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

The law says that it must be there. It is not a technicality; it is just a simple fact of law.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Is TfL going to do that?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you, Mayor. Will you cancel then collection proceedings against any other ticket with the defective wording, included bailiffs and so on?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I know that TfL in their refurbishment programme has given a commitment that where there are toilets on the underground network they will be opened up, and also I know you are lobbying quite hard for the Oyster readers to go into over ground stations as well. I am thinking of the North London Line. Where any toilets do charge on the public transport network, surely it would be possible to put an Oyster reader at any toilets that do charge so that holders of Freedom Passes can get free entry?

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

Have you got a Freedom Pass?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

If you choose to visit us at Romford at some point during your Mayoralty, you will discover there are public toilets at the station there but they are not accessible with a Freedom Pass because you cannot use Oyster cards, prepay or otherwise, to get through the gates at the station. That is a unique state of affairs on the surface rail network in London. As far as I know there is nowhere else where the ticket gates will not accept Oyster cards of any kind. I have been lobbying One Railway to get that changed. Will you join me...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you for that reassurance.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

The point that Val Shawcross is making is absolutely right. This is by and large not about leakage from people's own headphones and equipment, this is about people who aggressively use mobile phones and other equipment to play music out loud in order to intimidate fellow passengers. An online survey carried out showed that 73 per cent of the people who responded felt that they were too afraid to say anything about it to these people because they thought they were being provoked to cause an incident. I am pleased to hear about the campaign and I agree with the...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I attended my local over 50s forum in Edmonton a couple of weeks ago and they asked me to raise this with you as well. The reason they gave me for wanting posters on buses is that when asking people to turn their headphones down, to be able to point to a sign actually gives the public confidence to do that, and without it they do not have the confidence. Perhaps I could endorse my colleague's request that posters go at bus shelters and stands, but also on buses as well.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Something else that I am hearing from bus drivers is that the under 16s with the passes are no longer showing them when they get on the bus. The point I am making is that such a sanction is unenforceable if you are not going to check passes, so what will be done to make sure that the sanction is actually enforced?