• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Will the agreement specifically prevent industrial action on the Underground, or do you feel that like in the USA legislation is required to do that job properly?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

The Environment Committee, or rather Graham and I, met TfL the other week and we came up with the issue of how the Mayor's noise and air quality strategies get embedded. It goes back to Tony's question, because the noise strategy states very clearly that you will consult about buses. Although you will consult if it is related to the noise strategy, what does that mean to your toolkit? If it makes a street noisier, what are you going to do about it? You have the consultation and people say it is making their street noisier, so then what?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

So you are not going to do anything about it.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

So the residents of suburban London who effectively have new routes foisted on them " I draw your attention to the routes 419 and 485 in Barnes, where I have been in constant communication with TfL since before your appointment. The residents in quiet suburban streets are having very large double?decker buses and very long single?decker buses going up and down their quiet streets without anybody being consulted on it. I am told there is not a wing mirror which is safe in some of these streets, because of these buses. The argument which is provided by your TfL spokesman...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I never thought I was going to be completely gob smacked by an answer from you relating to a simple matter of bus stops, but that simple matter has produced the very big statement that you would not like to see consultation get in the way of progress. It is an absolutely extraordinary thing to say considering the service oriented provision that you make.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Thank you, Mr Kiley. I look forward to getting that. I know the Mayor is committed to a better transport system for South London and I am sure you are as well. I am aware of that from the conversations and the briefings I have had on the extension to the Southwest London tram. Can you tell me when the developmental work will be finished on the Sutton Tooting and the Purley Streatham links? I know there is developmental work going on now, there is money for that but there is no capital monies for the actual schemes themselves. You...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

To be fair to the Mayor, he has indeed been very thorough in his liaison with Sutton Borough on these proposals. I understand two OJEC notices were given that these works of review were under way. What is the timetable between now and the end of 2004? I do appreciate it is a very long?term process, but as Samantha Heath has said, there are many excellent regenerative opportunities that would come from such a Sutton extension, including the link to St Helier Hospital.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

No, he has not.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I think Elizabeth hit the nail on the head. The Croydon tram link extension we are talking about is hospitals to hospitals. Your funding mechanism will not work for that particularly: it is a pretty deprived residential area. This whole area does not need to wait for a wing and a prayer in terms of new alternative funding, but it does need a proper investigation. I know the Mayor has been down there. You say you have been down there; I am sorry, I did not know that you had. I think this area needs to be better looked at...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Many of these links go along the bottom of people's gardens. Your tax increment financing will be a business tax, so how can you make money for the tram links if they are chugging up behind people's gardens? That would be a domestic tax.