• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You talked a lot about the £2.9 billion. In fact, you have included quite a lot of projects which are not a part of that actual prudential borrowing allowance from the Government, but does that permission not just amount to the Government taking something that they should be funding and giving you permission to put up fares and charge Londoners for it? Is it not a case of Gordon Brown robbing London again and you acting as his agent?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

The thing is, if you are using the bus every day and your bus fare is going up by 20% for the next three years, or if your Tube fare is going up by inflation plus 1% for the next three years, it does not look much like a gift horse if you have to pay. Can you tell us why it is you did not tell Londoners before the election that you were going to put fares up to this extent? Indeed, you gave a commitment that fare increases would be pegged to inflation.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Did you just say that you had asked for this but you had not budgeted for it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

What will more transport investment in Crossrail add to the £10 billion investment package you have already negotiated?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Do not worry; you will hear them later. I hear a complete cop-out on the A406, just in a passing swipe: £24 million from litigation. There would not be rat running if you had not ducked the issue. I am going to take one thing from the list of broken promises. In your manifesto, a key pledge, on pages 7, 9, and 29, running of the Tubes an hour later was not mentioned in your five-year plan.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Could you also emphasise elements of the programme which are not anti-car, and which actually improve traffic?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Where does this leave your overall strategy? Is this not going to force people back out of public transport into cars? Are you going to put the congestion charge up to try and push them back again?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

): I was not sure if you had included the much-needed work on the Victoria Line. The state alone of Victoria tube station is a disgrace in this day and age, and also given the lack of escalators. In fact, do not stop at Victoria Station; go along the Victoria line. I know you have talked about Finsbury Park, but that line is an absolute disgrace.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Could you also emphasise elements of the programme which are not anti-car, and which actually improve traffic?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

What will more transport investment in Crossrail add to the £10 billion investment package you have already negotiated?