• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Tomorrow, at your Surface Transport Panel at Transport for London there is going to be a discussion around future measures for siting traffic signals in Boroughs and the conflict there has been between Transport for London and boroughs over priorities up to that point. Can you just update us on what the situation is and how you are going to be satisfying Boroughs' concerns?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Lynne Featherstone (AM): I went to the Angel junction with Bridget Fox, who is an executive member on Islington Council. It is one of the most dangerous junctions I have ever seen. Myself and Bridget (Fox) nearly got killed a number of times, which would please everybody no doubt, because there is almost no safe phase when you cross. But the answer from TfL at that point was that everyone knows about the junction; it is well known for being a dangerous junction. But my understanding is that they said there is nothing much they can do about it. I...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

In Haringey I just introduced a pilot for six months. It has so dramatically cut accidents; it did not stop the flow of traffic in a very big way, and the engineers were converted. I actually do not think the answers are so complicated.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

I wanted to raise the fact that two-thirds of all pedestrian accident deaths occur at junctions in London, and 60% of our most serious injuries. This is something I have got a lot of personal experience of, because when I chaired the engineers in Haringey, I noticed that all the accident hotspots were at junctions, and I looked carefully and decided that we needed to have all red phases, and we introduced one at Spouters Corner, which dramatically cut deaths. This is something that I think TfL really can do something about, because they control most of these junctions and...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Can we have a look at the methodology?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Thank you very much, Mayor. That is very helpful. I am sure we can now work to prompt Southwark to submit for Borough Spending Plan support. Can I just call into question, perhaps, the general methodology that is used by councils, and to some extent TfL, about assessing where resources should be applied for accidents? There does seem to be this methodology which looks at accidents after they have happened, and yet the Health and Safety Executive's whole modern approach is about pre-emptive risk assessments, looking for the features and the characteristics of a place where an accident may happen...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Returning to quality and service and bus driver behaviour, that is the single biggest issue that comes in my post box in terms of buses. The Liberal Democrats did a survey across London, presented to Peter Hendy (Managing Director of Surface Transport, TfL); 86% of people responded with severe problems experienced in terms of poor driver behaviour. Full marks to Metroline and Arriva for the work they are doing on training and for the BTEC, but I want to know how quickly that will be expanded to existing drivers. What can you do on discipline, because after the training if...