• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Therefore you agree that redesigning this rather poor layout at the moment as far as most users are concerned is a priority?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Not from some of us, I suspect. Can you also tell us a little bit about the ramp availability because Geoff points out that a lot of the buses do not have ramps working. In fact, TfL's surface transport report, which they do every quarter, states that a very high percentage of buses do have the ramps working when they are taken out. Is this because bus lay-bys have been removed so buses are damaging their ramps when they extend them close to the pavement? Is it because of poor driving? Is it because the driver cannot be bothered to...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

That might be a valid point but do you not think you would do better in your argument if you did not try rubbishing people who disagree with you when you yourself have used exactly the type of highly-coloured language: `only a dehumanised moron would get rid of the Routemasters' which is what is guaranteed to start a media frenzy when you subsequently change your mind.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Is that for all buses or just for Routemasters, that calculation on the back of your envelope?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

We do not really need Bob Kiley (Commissioner, TfL) do we? We have you and your calculator!

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

The attack is that you open your mouth before engaging your brain, Mr Mayor. That is the attack.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Can you perhaps just finally tell us how that sum of £3 a week on the Council Tax is broken down and which TfL officials provided that detail to you before you made that comment?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I would applaud all the work that Jennette has been doing and that TfL has been doing on accessibility but I think another motivation to this question lies in the media frenzy about the demise of Routemaster buses. When one delves into that, it is pretty clear that it was primarily driven by a number of right wing commentators and in particular by a Conservative think tank and I am wondering if you can cast any light on why you think this might have happened and what it says about the future of Conservatism that it is trying to hang...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

On all buses? Therefore it is not comparing like with like, is it? Get your envelope right if you are going to use it, for God's sake.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I will do that. The other issue that has been touched on of course is the lower deck design with the wide open space, which causes people to be thrown around. Now that we are moving to cashless buses, might it be possible to redesign the lower deck such that the wheelchair can access through quite a separate route and therefore make for easy access to seating for able bodied passengers.