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

So, you haven't got them in place now?

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

Thank you for your kind words; you did have our wholehearted support and you will have our wholehearted support for extending the zone. I am delighted to hear that you're thinking about extending it to Tower Hamlets which is a very deprived borough. It doesn't seem particularly fair that it's the richer boroughs, like Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster and Mayfair, who should have all the pleasure of reduced car traffic. This idea of a buffer zone from the Labour group is absolutely ludicrous. The true sort of buffer zone is extending the zone as far as we possibly can...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Why weren't you doing that before?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Have you been rephasing any traffic lights? Tony Travers - that well-known impartial commentator - has said on radio that he anecdotally believes that certain key lights have been rephased.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Can I also ask you about a couple of other things while I've got your attention? The road works: when are the road works going to be back on the roads again because they've also been removed, haven't they, for a period of time to ease in your charge?

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

The last thing I want to ask you about is in terms of extension. I think people will want it, it's going to be very popular, but my understanding is, at the moment, the capacity within the technology is such that you couldn't go beyond Kensington and Tower Hamlets. That would be the maximum extension available at this point in time.

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

So, you will give those to us when you get them.

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

So, you are saying the Underground can refuse to give you those figures at the moment?

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

Yes, but it's the Tube I want to get at.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

The other question I want to ask is about the use of the revenues. I have argued consistently that in outer London traffic is rising at an alarming rate. We know that it's not rising in central London - certainly after this it won't, it will start going down - and it's not rising in inner London but it's rising at an alarming rate in outer London. That's where public transport is poorest and that's where most of these journeys into central London begin. I really think that it's important that we put a significant amount of the money into...