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

Mr Mayor, is it not the case that Camden Council has refused to take part in the promotion of this scheme? Is it not right for a Council to wait to ascertain the responses of their residents before finalising their position? As you yourself have said, there will be opposition.

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

I totally agree with the wording and the tone of Geoff Pope's question. Mr Livingstone, you will be aware that a large roomful of residents in Brook Green in Hammersmith, joined by their democratically elected councillors made it very clear to London buses that they did not want the C1 bus going through a 20 mile an hour area with five schools, 12 buses an hour. They considered it to be wholly inappropriate. Can you really endorse what one of your TfL colleagues said in response to this overwhelming opposition? When asked what cost benefit analysis had been done they...

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

They do not need to go through Blythe Road to get there though do they?

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

You are saying that you are going to be launching a number of hybrid engine buses. Will they be those which can be provided to Richmond and other forward looking boroughs?

• 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?