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

Can you name and shame the worst culprits amongst the operators?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

It is actually, and in Lamont Road ' the same bus at the other end down in Kensington & Chelsea.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

That is a relief to colleagues, no doubt. I also welcome your undertaking to publish TfL's audit reports in future. As you say, in the past you have given the Audit Committee minutes to the lead Members. Nonetheless, I know that when I have asked for audit reports from TfL as a result of having read those minutes, the people at TfL have told me that I could not have them, their implication being that the reports would have to be written differently if they were going to be public property. Will you undertake to make the reports available as...

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

Can I congratulate you as well? The area I want to raise with you is airports. I know that is probably beyond your brief and we are probably going to concentrate on the buses, Tube and trains, but it is about surface transport links with many of the airports and whether you have some views on things like congestion charging at the airports, better rail links to Gatwick and so on. It is not going to be covered by any of the questions and I thought it would be useful to have your views on that now.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Is it true that the inspectors who get on these bendy buses have minders with them?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Absolutely. Given all those advantages you have spelt out and the very positive customer feedback that you have had on route 29, it is pretty unimaginable that `bendy' buses disappear from the streets of London, is it not?

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

I will come back to the question of style, and I offer my party's congratulations and good wishes to you. Of course, the Commissioner can very much help to set the style of the organisation, and I am sure we would all agree about that. I was recently at an event organised by one of the major business organisations in London and a director of a plc (public limited company) involved with TfL regularly on surface transport issues described your organisation as the `most high-handed, arrogant, unresponsive, and difficult organisation' he had ever dealt with in his business life. How...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

People at both ends have problems, but obviously you are looking at it, so that is fine. Thank you.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

One further question. That is as far as we can go, I guess. Would it not have been better if the Mayor had not answered that the tests found they were not suffering from the fault originally identified, because of course that is entirely misleading given what we were also hearing from the manufacturer at the same time? That is the sort of problem about style that I come back to. It would have been so much better if he had been able to recognise there was a problem, it was being looked at, and it was an ongoing situation...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Are not the final audit reports just the ones that say you have cleared it all up and it is all right now? The ones which we are interested in are the ones that come first which say what the faults are and what needs to be done, are they not?