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

I quite agree. I think the lines of communication would be a lot better, and also the lines of accountability.

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

I was going to ask something about the TOCs, but the Mayor has covered that. There are some discussions about whether the BTP should be broken down and absorbed. Have you thought about the possible advantages to Londoners of absorbing the BTP London operations within the MPS?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

I think Nicky Gavron (AM, Deputy Mayor) in the run-up to the last election made a very powerful series of statements about the whole journey and the fact that we may make people safer on buses and Tubes but quite often they are most vulnerable in the last mile back to their home or wherever. I am reminded of this particularly because in my constituency last week a young woman was raped when she got off the bus at the bus station, left the vicinity and was attacked by somebody. What work are we doing at TfL and with boroughs...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Is the withdrawal of those cards an effective sanction because in quite a lot of cases if you look under 16 the bus driver does not even ask to have a look at your card, so you will have had it withdrawn and it is not going to make the slightest difference?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Are you satisfied with the level of safety and security for passengers on public transport in London?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Will you be pressing for further expansion, because I think you have said that there is a limit to how many people you can train in policing, so are you going to be planning for further expansion next year?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Do you not think that is going to aggravate people from minority groups?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

Does that mean we have not seen the last of the big car-based retail developments in London while you are Mayor?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

King's Cross is probably one of the best-served public transport interchanges in the entire country. Is it really necessary to have that much car-parking space, and is the problem due to the lack of legal powers within your London Plan or lack of political will on your part to really get to grips with it?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 April 2006

There are various car-free developments that are gaining popularity now. Has your planning team ever asked a developer to replace all the residential parking apart from that for the disabled with a car club scheme and basically have a car-free development?