• 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...

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

Would the implication be that you have to have new schemes that run coterminous with the existing scheme or is the implication that you then have to have a completely different technology if you do want to expand? You might have given birth to something that's so popular and then you can't cope.

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

Just to be clear, you are agreeing with me that we could be looking at what, in fact, the Labour group have suggested which is a buffer zone.

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

I do want to press that a bit because it's done with PPZs, in fact I've done it myself, and it is an area where communities are divided where somehow the road pattern doesn't make sense. You just extend it a bit and the people inside have the same or similar exemptions to whose inside the boundary. It really is very simple and it's part of your day-to-day system.

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

You will expand?

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

I think so far, so interesting. I don't know whether your definition of success is managing to turn central London into a ghost town because I do think that probably you and TfL are as surprised as we are about what appears to be the effect. I suspect you've been taken as much by surprise as anybody. I think it isn't outlandish to suggest that a grip around the centre of London, so that you're actually starving it of the ability to conduct its business, is quite serious. Given that on the one hand you say that it's too soon...