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Coulsdon Town Centre Scheme (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Andrew Pelling
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2003
That is very good news but have there been changes then in some of the schematics as a result of that?

Notting Hill Carnival attendance (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2003
Would the Mayor agree with me that it is welcoming that Angie is talking in support of the Carnival? I am sure you would agree with me that one of the problems about Carnival is the mixed messages that are around and surely the issue is now how we can actually all work together to actually make the messages much clearer that Carnival is a real experience, it is the largest street festival in Europe and that people do want to come to it. The other thing that I think we ought to consider is that at that weekend there...

Notting Hill Carnival attendance (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2003
): It is not really your preferred route; it has to be the preferred route of everybody who actually takes part in Carnival. Can I ask you, as my final question, I have always been told by Lee Jasper that the only real justification for a new route would be the pressure of increasing numbers going to Carnival. Now, given that in the last two years we have seen a fall-off and it will take time to understand precisely what that fall-off for two years is caused by, there is less pressure now to have a new route precisely because...

Notting Hill Carnival attendance (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2003
Is it not true that it is also possible that it takes time for messages to filter through by you yourself were on television before the Carnival in 2002 actually suggesting to people that they stay because you considered it might be getting rather overcrowded and dangerous? Do you not think that actually far from being a victim of its own success, which is what we were talking about a few years back, it is actually getting a reputation now that is encouraging people to stay because they do not think it is as safe a carnival as it used...

Notting Hill Carnival attendance (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Angie Bray
  • Meeting date: 17 September 2003
It is the second year running, however, that numbers have dropped, is it not? They actually went down the year before as well. There was not a national rail crisis.

Road Humps (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Meg Hillier
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2003
I do find it extraordinary that Brian Coleman can simultaneously want to remove road humps, thereby putting pedestrians at risk, and talk about reducing traffic flow on TfL roads so it seems he's in favour of a congestion charge in Barnet. I do find his straddling of these issues quite interesting. I think this raises an issue about the general approach of TfL's funding for road humps in boroughs and the monitoring that goes on about the type of humps that are put in. For example, in Islington many humps have been put in 20mph zones paid for out of...

Road Humps (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2003
Are you aware that TfL has written to the Director of the Ambulance Service to ask him for his statistics and apparently he has not replied? Perhaps he does not actually have those statistics; perhaps they do not exist. Secondly, are you aware that I have suggested to TfL that we should actually start reclaiming money from Barnet Council? If they take out any road humps that have actually been paid for with TfL money then that money should be recouped.

Road Humps (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Brian Coleman
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2003
I am very glad that you mentioned loss of life because you presumably would agree with the Chairman of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. He has quoted the figure of 500 unnecessary deaths in London alone caused by road humps and other traffic calming delaying ambulances and causing injury to passengers in ambulances, which compares to the 300 - tragically too high - road deaths in London each year.

Road Humps (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Brian Coleman
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2003
We have just removed 42 in Brunswick Park Road, Mr Mayor. On the issue of congestion, would you not feel that TfL's money would be better spent improving traffic flow and encouraging the boroughs to improve traffic flow on the borough principle roads, which would reduce the need to rat-run through residential roads?

Road Humps (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Brian Coleman
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2003
Mr Mayor, I can tell from that that you are not a very regular driver. As you know, these cushions just enable you to line up the wheel base of your car and take it down the middle of the road at high speed and avoid any inconvenience at all. That is why they are put there for the benefit of fire engines and ambulances. They are also there for the benefit of boy racers. From your answer, do I understand that you are not exactly a great fan of road humps?
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