• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

By more trains?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I would be grateful if you would let me chair the meeting! I would be most grateful, Commissioner, if you would answer the question, thank you.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Thank you very much for that. Still we will not have an increased capacity on the District line, which is unbelievable to travel on in peak hours.

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

Are you able to list for us, because this is a very near future thing, how much you envisage fare rises to increase over the next five years? Specifically, what is the fare increase that you have in mind for the year 2008/2009?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I did hear in your briefing that you mentioned an expansion or enhancement of three tube lines. Can I give you the opportunity now to expand on that? I am particularly interested in capacity on the District Line and whether, in fact, you have managed to separate the Northern Line, and whether this is going to be done under PPP or under some other financial arrangement. p

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

But the costs are going to be higher for the tram, probably higher than they are at the moment, so it would still be the same case would it not, that with these expensive infrastructure projects, the costs outweigh the benefits? He is making that claim.

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

If, as you say, it would be unrealistic to publish in your glossy brochure the things that you cannot do, why does your glossy brochure not have health warnings written over it to say: `All of this is dependant on the Government bailing us out. All of this is dependant on us getting the extra fares'? Would that not have been a more honest way of coming to Londoners, rather than presenting this glossy document? Why is one of the things in your 2025 document not an undertaking to get rid of all the fare paying evasion that takes place...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Commissioner, good morning. You mentioned the extension of the Circle line trains so that they have a seventh carriage and so on, how many platforms in that situation would have to be extended or reworked, and what construction costs do you see?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The other suggestion was the land value taxation. What occurs to me is there is an extensive property portfolio, certainly with the tube system, which more could be done with. I go through Baker Street every day and on top of that there is a huge mansion development that was built right from the beginning. I feel there are other opportunities, possibly, to do something similar in places like Edgware Road tube station. That is the model they have adopted in Hong Kong and other places. I am not sure why that has not been incorporated within the plans.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

That is great. Can you guarantee to me here that cycling will be a priority for Transport 2025 and that you will at least achieve the Government target on things like at least half of all primary school children having cycle training by 2009?