• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

I have obviously been deeply disappointed by your record in a number of areas, but I have always warmly congratulated you on the success of Congestion Charging. Do you not think it was a mistake to concentrate purely on the expansion to the west and not also look to the east? Why should only west London get the benefits of quieter streets, less polluted streets and less traffic? Why should not east Londoners get those wonderful benefits as well?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

There was a statutory duty to consult with the Assembly on the westward extension. We alerted you to concerns over the timing, in as much as we did not think one year's figures were enough to give a real economic, business and financial impact. There were concerns about making it the same zone, so that it would destabilise the first zone, and about the boundary, and that two thirds of this area is residential and does not have the same logic as the first zone. Furthermore, there was concern about the £100 million cost of putting it in at a...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Is that a serious answer?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

This was 22 to 900. Consultation? Why the London need?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

What faith can my constituents in the London Borough of Bexley, particularly those who live in New Road in Abbey Wood, have in this toolkit, when their experience of consultation has been to find that the B11 bus is re-routed down their road without any prior notice or warning, increasing emissions, which appears to be in breach of your own environmental strategy? Furthermore, they find that when, belatedly, TfL did undertake a consultation, 918 responses opposed the re-routing, only 26 supported it, but nonetheless the re-routing remains. Is that not a farce, a sham of a consultation? What value is...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

No, it is beyond Earl's Court.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Clearly, you do not have an open mind on this, so I am not quite sure what the point of the consultation really is. However, the only way we can be certain we will not get it is to make sure we heave you out of office on 10 June. If, in the unlikely and unfortunate circumstances you were to find yourself back here again, what would it take to change your mind? You have had a petition, which you were rude enough not to be here for, but sitting on that table are nearly 30,000 signatures; the biggest survey...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

My question is on something you alluded to with respect to boundaries. On the Labour group we have been concerned for a while about the buffer zones in the boundaries. What is the mechanism for looking at the Queen's Park and Kensal Green areas? We want to talk more about buffer zones, but we suspect those roads will be of particular concern. Val Shawcross has raised issues in her constituency around the impact of the Congestion Charge at the boundary. How are you going to establish where the boundary should be and if there should be a buffer zone?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Listening to the very distinguished audience that we had there, if they are at all representative do you think that many of them will be struggling to make ends meet with a 90% discount to pay the Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Do you think that role of the LDA and your role in this could have started far sooner?