• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Do you know where that 2% figure of London residents cycling to the Games came from? It seems such a low target.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

One of the things you could do, for example, is to encourage people to set up bike hire businesses, of the sort they have in numerous other European cities so that you can use a card to hire a bike to use for a certain amount of time. That would certainly take pressure off the roads leading to the Olympics' site as well.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

This is likely to be an issue that is looked at by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and if we do not aim high enough or do not have the enthusiasm to start thinking about zero emission vehicles and cycling and encouraging this sort of transport, then I think the bid will be less attractive. I am quite clear that they are extremely concerned about the public transport aspects of the London bid. I think aspects such as the cycling and zero-emission vehicles could be a big bonus if we can get those going.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

I welcome Jenny Jones' (Assembly Member) questions and comments about cycling. Should we not be talking about the needs of the pedestrian population? It seems to me that the siting of the Olympics in Stratford with such a huge population around it is something to be valued. We should be asking for assurance that pedestrians have better access to the Games. It is really for the Mayor to assure us that the transport legacy is not just going to be biased towards the major infrastructure developments, important though they are, but will include cyclists and pedestrians. We have also not...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Alexandra Palace, the `people's palace', is in Enfield & Haringey, and there has been some recent speculation and concern that it may no longer be an Olympic venue. What reassurance can you give the people of Haringey especially, that Alexandra Palace will not be overlooked?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

It seems we are pitching the target very low so that we are not disappointed. Is the 12% figure for workers and athletes moving around the park?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

You appear to have anticipated the third question I was going to ask, which is whether anything has really changed since you made that remark, apart from the fact that you are now responsible for this so you are trying to talk it up instead of talking it down?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Can I ask you to cast your mind back to 29 January 2003, when speaking to the BBC you told Londoners 'I do not think you can say to Londoners that they are safe on the Underground. They take a risk every time they get on and that is a disgrace.' Since you made that well thought out contribution to the safety discussion in London, there have been three derailments. What else has happened since then to change your view?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Yet in your Mayor's Report which you have submitted for our consideration at this meeting, looking back on London Underground you state that it has a safety record to be proud of. Your view seems to have changed a great deal in 18 months. Which is it, a record to be proud of or a disgrace?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

It is interesting that you use the words `where people want to travel" and `want to use it". You will obviously have related this to the West London Tram that has two-thirds of its length running through my own constituency. People there have read this report and not drawn the positive conclusion that you have reached. The report actually says that none of the schemes in England and Wales have achieved the passenger numbers forecast, that their revenue streams were not as forecast, they did not reduce congestion and they certainly did not improve regeneration. One wonders how and why...