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

Thank you. Will you also consider the setting up of an emergency volunteer reserve force to assist the emergency services in the case of an attack? We saw the number of volunteers who are wishing to help with the Olympics, so why not in this area?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Yes, well that is one idea for spending the unnecessary money that you intend to spend on the Extension. There are other ways, I am sure, that people would prefer to see that money spent, rather than on the Extension. As you know, Mr Mayor, there are many people who simply do not see any of the benefits that you claim there will be under the Extension, and many of them are here today in the audience. I just wonder why you felt it necessary to sneak into this building through the back this morning. Whatever happened to the man...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

May I also ask you, since we are talking about consultations: do you stick by your remarks that the whole thing that you have invited Londoners to participate in is actually a charade?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Okay, one final question: in your perfect world, a government would be elected. There would be no scrutiny of any sort. There would be no consultation of any sort, and for four years or five years, you would simply do as you want. Is that really what you would prefer? You do not think consultation is the sensible thing to have as an adjunct to government?

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

Are you aware that our policies propose more than just putting more people into the transport network? There needs to be better training, and also, we need to be better prepared for an attack. There is a proposal to produce an emergency volunteer reserve force and to have permanently staffed police boxes at mainline stations, so that the public know how they can get support, and so that it is better established. None of these things have yet been addressed. Is the Mayor intending to do anything on those?

• 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...