• 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.

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

Could the Commissioner help us with the TfL figure?

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

First of all, can I welcome your attention to the problems at the east end of the District Line which you have referred to twice this morning? What percentage of the staff that you are about to take on are on temporary contracts? How does that compare to the rest of TfL?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Just as Bob said the absence of graffiti on the network would give vital reassurance to people in terms of safety, do you not agree that the presence of staff on the stations provides the same sort of vital reassurance to people on safety issues? It is not only going to be psychological; it is also going to be practical. There will be practical benefits of tackling graffiti, safety, crime issues, or whatever and you do need a visible presence there. CCTV cameras in themselves will not be sufficient. You do need to maintain that staff presence.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

You have obviously had limited time, but nevertheless you have spent intense effort getting yourself up to speed on this. The final question is about lessons from Chancery Lane, where the report we wrote in the Assembly which I think was generally well received and evidence from elsewhere suggests that although the total number of staff may be one issue, the skills and deployment of staff at particular times is another. Have you been looking at that; for example, whether there are enough competent engineering trained staff on the line at weekends in the event there is a problem?