• 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.

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

It was meant to be a co-ordinated programme across London.

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

The second supplementary is that there was a time in history when you wanted to improve accessibility at London stations: rail, Tube, DLR areas. When we asked Transport for London about this, they told us about lots of useful little initiatives, which is great, but I wondered what had happened to the co-ordinated programme of action that was trumpeted that you were going to put in place with the boroughs this year?

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

This is all process; what about the vision?

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

Okay, well, I'm happy to let you off that one and blame the Government instead.

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

You would have thought that this question might have given you a clue that I was looking at some of the projects that had slipped, with reference to the fact that you didn't like the questions I asked you in the theme section. I am going to ask you three more. We asked the DLR planners the other day when they thought that the City Airport extension would be operational, and they said the end of 2005; in the Transport Strategy you say during 2004/2005, which I assume is the financial year, but isn't it the truth that the timetable...