• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

): Is it financially driven from the point of view of modelling?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Yes, but you know the objection is predominantly at the southern end.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

There is an undertaking that if there are unforeseen problems which arise following the opening of a bridge then TfL would be very receptive, I think, to addressing those as well, if they are a consequence of the bridge?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

In terms of the quantum, I think there is about £6-7 million available for traffic calming and related measures within Bexley?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I understand. It is an issue I have flagged up on behalf of constituents and perhaps we can talk about it later.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

It is a good way of getting to sleep at night.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

On this issue of transparency in style, I think the Assembly is naturally focused on what TfL does rather than how it is done and I think there is a large extent to which TfL is a black box because you do not know what is going on inside it if you are an Assembly Member. There are risks here. One of the things I discovered when I started to ask some questions was the almost complete impossibility 4 of obtaining information about internal audit within TfL, particularly TfL's street management, where I think there are big risks. I very...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I do not think that you consulting widely is necessarily or at all supplanting local democracy, but it would certainly have been helpful to me to know that you were not consulting those local stakeholders who you have consulted on other changes to routes, for example. I just make the point that if you are not going to consult widely with all stakeholders, such as residents' groups, perhaps that should be clearly spelt out in letters that go to the people that are consulted.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Particularly when they are making £130 million a year on the suburban lines anyway.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I am glad to hear that.