• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Chair, if I could just say to the Mayor, Kate Hoey and I want to initiate a joint-agency meeting of all of those organisations, including the overground service and the Council, to try and tackle some of these issues. It would be very helpful if, as Mayor, you could throw you weight behind supporting that initiative.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

A question about multi-agency working: there are quite a few areas around London Vauxhall Cross is one of them, just as an example, and Crystal Palace is another where there is a plethora of agencies transport police, TOCU, TfL, Southwest Trains, Network Rail, Lambeth Council, border councils involved in trying to manage the environment and the crime around often transport interchanges. Is there a better way of doing it because it does seem to me that frequently the common complaints that we get are at the places where the agencies meet, or in fact do not meet, and issues fall...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

That is very good news but have there been changes then in some of the schematics as a result of that?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Would the Mayor agree with me that it is welcoming that Angie is talking in support of the Carnival? I am sure you would agree with me that one of the problems about Carnival is the mixed messages that are around and surely the issue is now how we can actually all work together to actually make the messages much clearer that Carnival is a real experience, it is the largest street festival in Europe and that people do want to come to it. The other thing that I think we ought to consider is that at that weekend there...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

): It is not really your preferred route; it has to be the preferred route of everybody who actually takes part in Carnival. Can I ask you, as my final question, I have always been told by Lee Jasper that the only real justification for a new route would be the pressure of increasing numbers going to Carnival. Now, given that in the last two years we have seen a fall-off and it will take time to understand precisely what that fall-off for two years is caused by, there is less pressure now to have a new route precisely because...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Is it not true that it is also possible that it takes time for messages to filter through by you yourself were on television before the Carnival in 2002 actually suggesting to people that they stay because you considered it might be getting rather overcrowded and dangerous? Do you not think that actually far from being a victim of its own success, which is what we were talking about a few years back, it is actually getting a reputation now that is encouraging people to stay because they do not think it is as safe a carnival as it used...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

It is the second year running, however, that numbers have dropped, is it not? They actually went down the year before as well. There was not a national rail crisis.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I do find it extraordinary that Brian Coleman can simultaneously want to remove road humps, thereby putting pedestrians at risk, and talk about reducing traffic flow on TfL roads so it seems he's in favour of a congestion charge in Barnet. I do find his straddling of these issues quite interesting. I think this raises an issue about the general approach of TfL's funding for road humps in boroughs and the monitoring that goes on about the type of humps that are put in. For example, in Islington many humps have been put in 20mph zones paid for out of...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Are you aware that TfL has written to the Director of the Ambulance Service to ask him for his statistics and apparently he has not replied? Perhaps he does not actually have those statistics; perhaps they do not exist. Secondly, are you aware that I have suggested to TfL that we should actually start reclaiming money from Barnet Council? If they take out any road humps that have actually been paid for with TfL money then that money should be recouped.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I am very glad that you mentioned loss of life because you presumably would agree with the Chairman of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. He has quoted the figure of 500 unnecessary deaths in London alone caused by road humps and other traffic calming delaying ambulances and causing injury to passengers in ambulances, which compares to the 300 - tragically too high - road deaths in London each year.