• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Tube Lines.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Your officers have not responded to requests from Barnet officers, and your office has not responded to my request made at 10 o'clock on Monday morning. On the Red Routes that you control on the A41 and A1 can you take emergency traffic order powers to increase the usage of the bus lane, for instance, outside just the rush hour so that the bus lane can operate all day, and suspend the parking provisions on those roads. I know it will affect traders, but this is the only way we are going to get the buses moving down the A1...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

We agree on that.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I am not here to answer questions, but everyone in the world looked at the PPP and everyone found it to be wanting. I am no lover of the PPP as you know. That is not the point. You are now responsible. We can all slag off the Government, and indeed I have slagged off the Government for its part in the PPP, but now you are Mayor of London, the Tube has been transferred and we were assured under the PPP that we, or you in this case, would have absolute responsibility for safety and that the safety of...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Nobody underestimates the position that you are in at the moment and that you actually did fight against the PPP and then the Government forced you to sign it. That situation is there. Obviously, it must be a hell of a burden at the moment. But at what stage, given I think it was either Tim O'Toole or Bob Kiley who said at a press conference, yesterday, that he has been waiting something like months and months and months for information from some of the Infracos or a particular Infraco when do you see yourself actually having to make that...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But if the evidence is that it is clearly the PPP, will you be calling on the Government to introduce that primary legislation?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

These recent derailments may or may not be connected with the PPP. How long do things need to carry on the way they are? How bad do things need to get? How many derailments do we have to have before you actually pronounce the PPP as unworkable and call upon the Government to look again with a blank sheet of paper at a proper unified system for running the Tube?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Well, listen to this: `TfL agrees the safety case for the Tube with the HSE, RMT and ASLEF. TfL remains responsible for the safety case. It is nobody else's responsibility and if the Infracos will not do their job (case not proven at the moment) it is TfL's fault for not having adequate systems in place to check." The Mayor as Chair of TfL is responsible; not the Infracos, not the Government. The buck stops with you, so what are you going to do?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Will you also perhaps ask the graffiti team, which is doing work on bus shelters, to look particularly at the graffiti which has happened to some bus shelters in Hayes in the London Borough of Bromley, as well as at the adjoining over ground railway station? In so doing, will you perhaps also support the residents of Hayes in their fight to retain the village post office?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

On the Tramlink question there has been very good action by the police service and by British Transport Police recently to catch those graffiti writers who have had graffiti materials at tram stops in Croydon. I am very grateful for the action that has been taken. Could I ask you to assist with one particular type of anti?social behaviour we have with the tram? The ballast proves to be quite useful ammunition for those who like throwing it at the houses close to the tram system. We are having problems with the tram operator refusing to pay for some resin...