• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So how do TfL and the LDA liaise about regeneration impact of these transport schemes proposed in the Transport 2025 document?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Can I follow that up? I spent a day walking potential routes , and it is very striking that there are acres and acres of car park, and the development of that area, which is quite central to London, is vastly under developed. Now I hear what you are saying as you are talking about the importance of the business case for tram schemes based upon volumes of people, but do you think there would be scope for boosting the regeneration cases for light rail schemes if there was more joined up working between the London Development Agency (LDA), TfL...

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

Just a quick question about the financial strategy for your trams, and the West London Tram in particular. If the CSR does not give you the money this year, or indeed later on, as you have suggested might be acceptable, once the public inquiry has been and gone, and you do not get it then either, would you borrow the money in order to do the West London Tram?

• 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.