• 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...

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

I'll move on to something that may be more prominent in your mind, your tram project. In the Transport Strategy you speak of starting the construction of the preferred tram scheme by 2004. We believe you favour the west London tram scheme despite discussions about consultation. So, will construction start on time in 2004?

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

Have you had the negotiations with the SRA, Network Rail and the Train Operating Companies and the London Fire --?