• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

So it is by diktat really?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I shall just follow behind Richard Barnes and point out that Shepherd's Bush Green was another surprising Conservative councillor appearing on the scene right on the route of the tram of course, and I suspect that was also connected. Can I just ask you, given that the newly Conservative-led Ealing and indeed following behind them the newly led Hammersmith & Fulham are both now declared opponents of your tram scheme, what difference you think that will make to your ability to implement the plan?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I think that is something that the Board at TfL needs to focus on. The other thing is that the transport options for the residents of West London are getting worse. The petition I put in earlier quite clearly shows that rail links are not as flexible as they were before with First Great Western reducing services on links that people had depended on for a number of years.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I just think that there are things that could be done better in the consultation process.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

If this general swing against Labour continues, particularly in London, can I ask you, at the time of the next Mayoral election will you be standing as an independent?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

It worked though, did it not?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Some Londoners cannot afford them.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

The general opinion in the area is that the tram is unsuitable and that is why people have voted against it. You have quoted your opinion polls. I am not sure when the last opinion poll was that you took.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

However, it very much depends on the questions you ask in that opinion poll - as I remember, that opinion poll was somewhat obscure in the questions that were asked - and the fact is that people have voted against it very decisively. There are problems along that corridor; no one is saying there are not. Why not look for a more suitable solution, namely investigate the trolley bus seriously? TfL have not taken the trolley bus at all seriously. They have said, `Yes, we have looked at it' and then they have dismissed it. According to my information, the...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

His explanation is lack of resource because all the resources are being taken away to do Safer Neighbourhood Policing and they are not able to respond to the crimes.