• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Thank you very much. Are you saying that you will seriously look into the possibility of having permanently staffed police boxes or something similar - a visible presence at a permanent, fixed box in mainline railway stations?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Is the Mayor really saying that if the Western Extension ' which clearly is not popular and has very questionable benefits ' were to be stopped, there would be no immediate saving? Is he also saying that trying to achieve these questionable benefits is more important than improving the security of London's transport system in respect to protecting Londoners against further terrorist attacks?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Will you be setting objectives for improvements of the police visibility in this?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

You have done the public consultation. You have had the opinion polls. When are you going to stop the shilly-shallying and get on with it, so more of London has the benefit of lower emissions, quieter streets, and cleaner air? When are you going to get on with it?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Would you be willing to read in detail the detailed research document that I put into the TfL Congestion Charging review on Kennington? All of the research does include demographic research, car ownership, number of disabilities, and the difficulties people are having parking in their own area, because of the mismatch of parking policy and Congestion Charging in some areas. I did get a quarter-page reply ' I think, or half-page reply ' from TfL which, essentially, had not analysed my argument, had not analysed my data, and said, if you want it in summary, `No.' That is the polite...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Thank you, because, yes, I identified three out of those seven areas. You would say that I should be satisfied and shut up and go away'

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Would you not agree that the Congestion Charging scheme in the central zone has been a success, and we have supported that all along? It has reached the 21% target of traffic reduction, but in today's world, people are now moving forward to road pricing as a much more effective way of controlling congestion, without all the knock-on disbenefits that the existing scheme has.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Thank you for informing us of that, Mayor. Could you also tell us what will be the likely impact on reducing pollution in west London with the West London Tram?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

That is true. Another aspect of your strategy which the Liberal Democrats have opposed has been the cleanup of black cabs. Could you just outline what'?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

It is sense that opposition parties, in opposing certain parts of your annual budget, have no choice, in the way this Assembly is set up, but to vote against the whole budget, and that in fact, the Liberal Democrats- own budget proposals have always strongly supported expansion of the bus services. Are you aware that in opposing the West London Tram proposals, the Liberal Democrats have repeatedly called for TfL to look seriously into the use of trolley buses, which have much more flexible use of road space and, indeed, are just as pollution-free as trams are? I would like...