• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

As you know, I would like to see the whole thing speeded up. I think that we are going to wait 20 years to do every school in London at the rate we are going so I am really concerned that we should move a bit faster on this. One of the ways that we could do it is if, for example, officers from the TOCU actually could do little detours off their main route and actually check that drivers around schools are being careful and courteous. Is that something you might consider once the scheme is rolled out even...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

To emphasise this further, to what extent would you consider rewarding " or perhaps the opposite of rewarding " boroughs who support or fail to support your priorities for road safety, such as boroughs who might oppose road humps or might wish to delete road safety. I cannot think of any boroughs beginning with B in my mind at present.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Thank you for that reply. I think that is very welcome as far as it goes but the question that is asked by Len is about new infrastructure in London and whether the GLA can do some more to help with two things, I think. The first is to secure safety but the second is to set even higher standards a benchmark, if you like, which boroughs can be guided by in their other safety work on existing sites.

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

Ken, a couple of points. I wonder if you could ask TfL to give us an update on the work that you have got them to commit to on the review of child safety. This is something that certainly we in this group have been working with you on and it is good work and we should actually hear more about it. We should also know more about the £12 million spend by TfL so will you let us have that? The other part of this question is I totally agree with everything that has been said but are you...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

): A number of borough councils, certainly Liberal Democrat run ones, have a hotline that members of the public can ring and report graffiti, abandoned vehicles, rubbish and so on. Does TfL have such a hotline and if it does not, will you institute one?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Mr Mayor, I would have hoped to have seen some evidence of your good intentions on the line that I use, which is the District Line but unfortunately, apart from an announcement one morning that instead of the usual delays there were now going to be intervals on the London Underground, that is as much as I have seen. The trouble we have on the District Line now is graffiti internally in the trains. You have talked about trains painted with graffiti, trying to get underneath that, but in fact the graffiti is now internal and it is frankly disgusting...

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

Are you going to be setting performance targets in this area for TfL and what are they?

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

I think, Ken, one of the things we have experienced in the boroughs is actually you can do it faster than that by arrangement and there is a sense in which TfL could learn from the experiences of some of the better-practice boroughs. Indeed, I think there are lots of areas where there are now partnerships between boroughs and the utilities, for example, to assist with clean up. Do you not think that TfL should try and join in local arrangements and partnership arrangements for this kind of environmental cleansing possible? Can I just say that I know this is...

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

Yes, Mayor. We have talked this morning about the importance to people of feeling that their stations are clean and safe, we talked about the overground stations, and we talked about the wider environment in and around stations. As you know, we very much support the Capital Standard programme of the GLA to bring London boroughs up to a good minimum standard of environmental cleanliness and graffiti removal et cetera. It is obviously very important that TfL sets a good standard and does not let London down in this regard. Have you set environmental performance standards for TfL and if...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Do you know yet if TfL will be represented on the new British Transport Police Authority?