• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Some people feel that TfL is not responsive when it comes to consultations and has difficulty responding to the amount of correspondence that you might get from customers. With the opportunity of a new bill going through Parliament, do you think there might be an opportunity to codify, or even restrict, some of those responsibilities?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

TfL gets a huge amount of correspondence about its consultations and other issues. It must be a very difficult task to deal with. In the new GLA Bill do you think there will be any value in codifying the responsibilities of TfL to respond to consultations on traffic issues?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Would you agree that the policy is predicated on a philosophy that says car bad, public transport good?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Brian Coleman (Chairman): I am not sure you have, Mr Hendy. Angie Bray (AM): You began to touch on it.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I was trying to be very polite and not antagonise you in the way you have been by other questioners!

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Could I take you to outer London as opposed to inner London? What proposals do you have, if any, to improve the North Circular?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Is there any truth to the rumours that the burgeoning costs of the Olympics may endanger the Crossrail project? Could you alleviate our concerns on that particular one?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So what is your shopping list then? What goes? What is Plan B?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Even if you excise your expenditure, the PPP and Crossrail from your total planned expenditure, the increase in income from the fare box, if fares only increase by RPI, is not going to cover your shopping list is it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Can I draw your attention to the Eddington Report which I would not think gives much comfort to those of you who support the idea of a West London Tram. He has looked at heavy infrastructure projects to alleviate extra pressures and has pointed out that the cost of delivering them is likely to be very high which may well constrain the relative returns from such fixed infrastructure. Of course we know his report is directly on behalf of the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, and he will be taking that as a good argument against giving the kind of funding that...