• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I am not here to answer questions, but everyone in the world looked at the PPP and everyone found it to be wanting. I am no lover of the PPP as you know. That is not the point. You are now responsible. We can all slag off the Government, and indeed I have slagged off the Government for its part in the PPP, but now you are Mayor of London, the Tube has been transferred and we were assured under the PPP that we, or you in this case, would have absolute responsibility for safety and that the safety of...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Nobody underestimates the position that you are in at the moment and that you actually did fight against the PPP and then the Government forced you to sign it. That situation is there. Obviously, it must be a hell of a burden at the moment. But at what stage, given I think it was either Tim O'Toole or Bob Kiley who said at a press conference, yesterday, that he has been waiting something like months and months and months for information from some of the Infracos or a particular Infraco when do you see yourself actually having to make that...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But if the evidence is that it is clearly the PPP, will you be calling on the Government to introduce that primary legislation?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

These recent derailments may or may not be connected with the PPP. How long do things need to carry on the way they are? How bad do things need to get? How many derailments do we have to have before you actually pronounce the PPP as unworkable and call upon the Government to look again with a blank sheet of paper at a proper unified system for running the Tube?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Well, listen to this: `TfL agrees the safety case for the Tube with the HSE, RMT and ASLEF. TfL remains responsible for the safety case. It is nobody else's responsibility and if the Infracos will not do their job (case not proven at the moment) it is TfL's fault for not having adequate systems in place to check." The Mayor as Chair of TfL is responsible; not the Infracos, not the Government. The buck stops with you, so what are you going to do?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Will you also perhaps ask the graffiti team, which is doing work on bus shelters, to look particularly at the graffiti which has happened to some bus shelters in Hayes in the London Borough of Bromley, as well as at the adjoining over ground railway station? In so doing, will you perhaps also support the residents of Hayes in their fight to retain the village post office?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

On the Tramlink question there has been very good action by the police service and by British Transport Police recently to catch those graffiti writers who have had graffiti materials at tram stops in Croydon. I am very grateful for the action that has been taken. Could I ask you to assist with one particular type of anti?social behaviour we have with the tram? The ballast proves to be quite useful ammunition for those who like throwing it at the houses close to the tram system. We are having problems with the tram operator refusing to pay for some resin...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I did actually ask a question at the last Mayor's Question Time about the Tramlink issue. Recently we have conducted a survey and found that 27 of the 31 stops are completely covered with graffiti. I know that TfL officers did meet Croydon officers, but I am interested in an update on that.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Absolutely. Borough liaison is key for a lot of the work that you do. The work that we are doing on protecting the City's environment makes it very clear that it is actually at the tension between property owners and responsibilities is the clear issue. The question is around where TfL relates to the issues of protecting the City's environment, making sure that we clean up our streets where it is the interface that is the problem. Do you have a specific TfL team that relates to boroughs on this particular issue?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Thank you. There is an issue about how TfL relates to buses. Let us say it is public safety in the public realm. Trees overhanging bus stops create an environment which is quite difficult for people wanting to wait at bus stops, say, late at night and blocking CCTV cameras.