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

That view isn't shared by the Ilford Recorder who tell me that all but one of the bus services than run through Ilford and do not go into the centre of town have actually slowed up since the congestion charge was introduced because you have congested the roads outside the zone and slowed down buses and, by implication, other traffic there. So, it's not all good news, is it?

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

Could you tell me if any of those have improved their punctuality and their time keeping since the congestion charge was introduced?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

And what about progress towards Euro 3?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

What percentage of buses are now reaching Euro 2 standard?

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

Missing from that absolutely wonderful list of new routes was the Muswell Hill to Swiss Cottage bus route. You said the criteria was being certain it was going to work; that has been proven. You loved this proposed route when you were campaigning to be Mayor; you were committed to it; you wanted it to happen. It seems to have got stuck in the Bus Priority Steering Group so I am asking you, here and now, to come good on your commitment and given them a kick up the backside, have a word with your close personal friend, Peter Hendy...

• 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?