• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just so we can understand what are the implications of that, you talk about developing an Olympic road network. Is that just going to be roads which are currently part of the TfL strategic road network, or do you see that network including a lot more borough roads and being a lot wider?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What if the OTA has a dispute with the boroughs and the roads that they operate? Who resolves that problem, then?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Then there will not be another road grab beyond the one that is currently in progress?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What you are saying, though ' and I can understand the imperatives ' is basically that the transport needs of the Olympics, those couple of weeks, are going to be paramount over the transport needs of Londoners, as interpreted by TfL. How will a dispute of that sort be resolved?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How will the OTA be made up? Who will appoint the members?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Mr Mayor, you say we have seven years, but if I look at the North London Line for the last seven or more years, in fact, it has become worse, rather than better. I am very interested to know what plans there are for upgrading the North London Line, which potentially could be an important link from southwest London and also places like Camden and Islington, a direct link to Stratford. What can be achieved?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Does that mean, if that had to happen, that something would be done about implementing the Thameslink box effectively, so that access to the cross-channel shuttle at King's Cross can be properly integrated, rather than a very difficult, 500-metre walk across King's Cross?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Well, that is commendably brief. Thank you very much. Can I ask you why not? It was, after all, something that was promised in this Memorandum of Understanding, so if it is to have any creditability at all ' that is something in there that said that this review was going to take place. Why are you so determined not to have this review? Apart from the fact that it should be happening anyway, because it was promised by the Government, why are you so determined not to have this review of what is a very, very important spending aspect...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

That is absolutely fine, but Mr Mayor, apart from the fact that you may not be Mayor in 2012 ' roll on the day ' you may well be leaving a legacy for somebody else who will then have to deal with the situation at the time which you could, if you took action today, at least try to amend. What is wrong with you throwing your considerable weight and influence behind a campaign ' whether it is inside this review meeting which should happen, or whether it is not ' to ensure that somewhere during the passage of the...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The review was written into the understanding.