• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

As I am sure you are aware, it is a very difficult nut to crack and Neil Gerrard, MP, one of my parliamentary colleagues has been working on it for some time and it is not as straightforward as that answer suggests. Have you considered in your fare packages now and for the future looking at a cut price evening travelcard, which would mean that there would be less re-sale market, which would seriously help, I believe, to reduce the problem?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

As part of your commitment to improving safety in stations, what plans have you to tackle ticket touting, which is a particular problem in some of the stations in my constituency, including Walthamstow Central, Highbury and Islington, and Leightonstone?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Yes, absolutely. As you know, the Assembly are doing an investigation into protecting the environment but there is the perception of crime and the dumping around Tramlink stations and that does not really, as Toby highlighted, make you feel confident of travelling on the tram. We are going actually officially to Croydon today to have another look at it but we have had complaints and the perception of travelling on Tramlink. It is bit like zero tolerance on the capital standards extension to TfL. People do feel uncomfortable travelling on Tramlink and there is only, as far as I know...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Are nine officers enough to police Tramlink?

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

I am always pleased, Mr Mayor, when you talk so positively about Tramlink PFI, the result of the work of Steven Norris and a Conservative council that put the PFI in place. The question I would like to ask is related to the tram that Sam asked earlier and also is related to the issue of what the flexibility is like in allocating the officers between the established routes and bus routes that are facing difficulties. Whenever I have spoken to you, you have always been very positive about intervening on the issue of the stoning of T31 bus in...

• 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...