• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

What about Crossrail? Do we need that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

You talk about encouraging other forms of transport apart from car use. The plan you have includes minimal parking at the venues and for people to travel there by public transport. Has your model taken into account the experience of the Millennium Dome where this happened? The lack of parking spaces meant there was actually a lack of people who went there. Or, indeed, there is the experience we have had with this building where people find it very difficult to get here. You can witness all the empty seats today because there is nowhere for them to stop.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

It sounds like you are relying on what you call operational enhancements and the Mayor's figures about the numbers going down for other reasons over the summer. Does this mean that once the Games are over there will be very little in the way of material transport improvements for Londoners to enjoy afterwards?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

What are the conclusions that you draw from that model?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

This is all a happy accident, is it not? All of these things were going to be in place anyway regardless of whether we get the bid or not. Can you point to any material transport improvement that Londoners will benefit from specifically because we have the Olympic Games in East London, which we were not going to have before?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

But that is not part of the Olympic bid; it is there anyway.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

It is things like car-parks. Sydney was billed as a green Olympics, yet still had 10,000 car-parking spaces. Are you going to have car-parking spaces for spectators?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Sorry, can I just interrupt? I want to know why you are not going to take the package seriously. Because I refer you specifically to two promises. TfL or Barbara can answer this. The Liberal Democrats usually support the bid. But I have to tinge it with a bit of reality because of a couple of the promises, or suggestions: `The Olympic Games strategy includes a requirement for a single command and control capability." But is Barbara aware that is a kind of `pigs might fly" policy because up until now they have absolutely refused to do that for London...