• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

You can see why I am concerned. Dick Halle is saying he could not see there would be an upgrade. It is reassuring if you are saying you are going to prepare the way for that potential scheme. Does that mean that the design of the transit scheme and the potential land possessions will allow for a tram as soon as there is demand? Are you going to do all that preparatory work rather than wait until later?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The closure of the Waterloo and City line after Metronet had failed to clear the dust I am told: `Still no helpful facts six hours after the incident'. The PPP Arbiter's report, that was published at 7.30 am, I understand that Members and Members' staff were excluded from TfL's press conference at 11.30am and were not able to talk to TfL until 1pm the following day.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Thank you for that. It is intended to be a constructive question as well as asking about constructive engagement. I think I have been asked to do it so that it was not Geoff [Pope] getting at you all the way through the meeting! I am glad to hear that because that was not one of the suggestions that was agreed before, and perhaps that can be taken forward both for you, as Commissioner, and others in TfL. There has been a reference this morning to difficulties about responses. Thank you for putting in place a liaison person. The experience...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

This is not a personal complaint, Peter!

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

It is very interesting to hear you say that actually, nothing has changed since you were a boy walking down the Strand and that traffic levels and congestion levels and speed levels have remained pretty much exactly the same with or without your congestion charge. Does that not rather much confirm what some wag said to me not so long ago, which was that `the congestion charge is a charge we pay for congestion which we used to get for free'?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Let us refer to a report which might be a bit closer to your heart, namely, an official report into the western extension that has been done by TfL. That report says that there could be a net shift of car-borne custom to shops and other facilities outside the extension zone. Are we not in the extraordinary position where there could be no improvement in the congestion, no profit from the scheme, and a loss of business? In other words: a lose, lose, lose scenario.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Nicky Gavron (AM): I want to follow up on what Murad Qureshi [AM] was saying in terms of the congestion charge in the context of equity and quality of life. I do not know the updated statistics of how many households across London do not have a car.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

He then developed an argument for subsequent intervention on traffic light systems in central London, and also the suggestion of the pedestrianisation of parts of it. I just wanted to know to what extent have TfL developed those two areas?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

In the recent survey to which this comment refers, are you aware that road speeds on six key routes have been shown to have fallen from about 12 down to eight miles per hour? Does that concern you?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I have got to correct Angie [Bray, AM] actually; it is not the level of cars in the centre of London, it is actually car ownership which has dropped in central London, and I think a lot of central Londoners are thankful for congestion charging insofar as it is one way in dealing with the huge numbers of vehicles coming in. The question I want to pose to the Mayor is actually going back to the original Tony Travers article. I think one central argument that he had there was that there was a case for one road authority in...