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

We can't keep going back to your rosy memories of the past, Mr Livingstone. The fact is that those were the facts before your bus route went in and you're saying that it's your bus route that should be accommodated even though the vast majority of the people living in that road, without wanting to oppose the bus route itself, nevertheless suggest that you have ignored all the evidence that they gave you before you put it in there that it would jam the place up.

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

You are therefore requiring the council to overturn the practice of many decades of parking arrangements in order to accommodate your one bus route which everybody said they didn't particularly want up that road. They want the bus route but not up that road.

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

Perhaps you could just tell me the number of services that have improved and the number that haven't.

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

Which they always have done.

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

I wonder what the criteria would be that people have to lay before Transport for London before they get a review that says this bus isn't suitable. I am thinking, yet again, of my favourite bus route, the 272, where you have been given evidence of problems with people's safety - pedestrian, bicyclist and motorist - you've had damage to cars, you've had buses that can't get past each other in the road despite legal parking places which the council have put in themselves for many years and were pointed out as being a problem before the bus route was...

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

With every new bus route you put in comes the promise of review after so many months and I am just wondering how many of the reviews which have taken place have ended up with the cancellation of that particular bus route.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

This is question 777 for your assistance. I have recently presented a petition to the Assembly on behalf of 710 residents in New Addington about the maintenance of a direct bus service from the southern and eastern parts of New Addington. I know that you know New Addington well and you will appreciate that it is a very long distance to walk to the 64 bus route or, indeed, the tram from many parts of eastern and southern New Addington. As you know there is a proposal to redirect the 130 bus route to Norwood Junction rather than to Croydon...

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

I think it came off the Transport for London website so clearly they should be careful about what they look at when they've taken mind-enhancing drugs.

• 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?