• 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.

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

We have just removed 42 in Brunswick Park Road, Mr Mayor. On the issue of congestion, would you not feel that TfL's money would be better spent improving traffic flow and encouraging the boroughs to improve traffic flow on the borough principle roads, which would reduce the need to rat-run through residential roads?

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

Mr Mayor, I can tell from that that you are not a very regular driver. As you know, these cushions just enable you to line up the wheel base of your car and take it down the middle of the road at high speed and avoid any inconvenience at all. That is why they are put there for the benefit of fire engines and ambulances. They are also there for the benefit of boy racers. From your answer, do I understand that you are not exactly a great fan of road humps?

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

There was some discussion about sharing the data of persistent offenders " people who evade car parking charges, bus fines, speeding fines and congestion charging " that TfL has, the Pan London Safety Camera Partnership has and the boroughs have. Has that gone forward at all?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I am on the same theme actually; I think that demonstrates that there is a big problem. Yesterday I had a classic piece of TfL congestion charging casework. My constituent paid his bill in April. A letter had gone missing so he was told that he had not appealed in time and yesterday he was in touch with me saying that TfL are not just treating him in a way that he finds rather rude and time consuming but are threatening to take him to court action. He had been evidencing to them since the dispute first arose that there...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Do you think that there is something wrong with your procedure because I am sure that they do not want to wilfully delay this rather unpleasant process any more than TfL does?