• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

The question that I am really asking is that in your Noise Strategy - you have just produced a lovely thick Noise Strategy - and on page 55, box 20, you very clearly say that you absolutely endorse full and proper consultation. I have got a number of buses - not just the B11 - where the consultation hasn't happened and the G1 is one where we have particular problems. What are you doing to beef up the consultation given that you have given this big measure of it in your Noise Strategy?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

This is a question that I think Bob would like to have asked if he had had the chance. We were both at a public meeting last night where the B11 bus came up, which I believe Dave Wetzel has already spoken to you about. The B11, as Bob will also confirm, has had difficulties because you moved from going down Knee Hill going on to New Road. I do know that Dave Wetzel made a commitment last night that he would revisit that and go to New Road and drive down it. Perhaps he could drive down it himself...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I think Jenny's jetty was actually a plank that selected Members of the Assembly were meant to walk across or indeed selected Mayors to get them to the other side relatively quickly, or the crocodiles. More seriously, there is quite a vociferous but small number of people who are really very strongly supportive of the river bus service. They are very anxious that the Mayor of London and TfL should be doing more on riverboat services. I accept the points you make about subsidy and the cost and so on, and I believe that the day-to-day management of the people...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

When we moved into this building there was some talk about our having a jetty. Was that ever a serious proposition and has there been any thought given to having a few pedalos outside or rowboats?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Are you considering as a part of your planning approval process possibly having some contribution towards river services from the people who provide lucrative developments alongside the river?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

The good news is that speed seems to have improved although one of the problems that river services have is that there isn't a lot of integration with other forms of public transport, particularly as you move further east and further west to either end of the river. Are there any plans that you have to improve integration with buses and rail services?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I was rather surprised that this question was submitted because I believe you are coming for detailed cross-examination on your performance on transport the week after next when we will be holding you to account on your transport policy. Whether you can be held up to be a failure or success on transport schemes depends really on the sort of mood music of what you've done and I'm not convinced on balance, particularly with the congestion charge, that you have done that badly on the majority of transport projects. The biggest problem area I have though is your thinking about...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

But you haven't spent it. It was there and it's not going to be spent.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Isn't it a symptom of your lack of progress on walking and cycling that Transport for London is expected to have £10 million left in its budget 2002/2003?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

This is more about what you haven't done, not what you have done.