• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Do you accept this as virtually a straight copy of the Liberal Democrat plan?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

So, have you had any consultation at all yet, before making this announcement on BBC London last week?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

I think that the one group of people who are never going to be in charge of Oxford Street, and therefore I wonder why they bothered with this plan, are the Liberal Democrats. It is of course, a Conservative-run council which is in charge of Oxford Street, and I suppose to some extent you have an interest, Mayor. I am interested in your tram idea. There are huge concerns from some of my residents who live around the area so could you tell me where would the buses and the taxis go, if they were not going to be going...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

And then go where to get them?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Basically it is going to be a bit of a blight is it not, whatever happens, to the people who live in the area if your proposals were to get anywhere close?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

A lot of these bus journeys happen to go along Oxford Street on their way from a much further a to b. Are you going to be terminating all these bus journeys at Oxford Street and then people will have to hop off, get on the tram, go to the other end, to then pick up another bus to continue?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

But the answer is not to put it in the residential streets of Bloomsbury?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Actually I seem to remember that quite a number of traders said that they had done their worst trade on that particular day when you pedestianised the whole area. I do not think they were particularly impressed by the quality of the sales they made.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Can I ask from the Chair, there is great concern from residents of the Bloomsbury area in the London Borough of Camden in my constituency, who already have the cars that were many years ago were dispersed from Oxford Street, and are now going to get the black cabs in their residential roads in large numbers, and of course eventually ' if this scheme goes ahead ' the buses. You have talked about you consultation with Westminster. Will you ensure ' that the London Borough of Camden and the Bloomsbury area is properly and thoroughly consulted?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

You talk about 2013 and 2016, but you also talked about other phases. Do you have a view as to when the early phases could come in to reduce some of the problems of congestion and pollution and noise?