• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

And where they do not exist?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I wanted to ask Tim O'Toole: I know you are not yet hands on at London Underground. When you are, you will experience the difficulty in working with overland rail, where there are interchanges which have combined stations. Do you have any thoughts yet about whether you will be revisiting the escalator policy at those interchanges, where lifts are proposed for new stations but often escalators are not? They are expensive, but they are also a very valuable part of access to local people " not just people with mobility problems, but to have them in addition to lifts is...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

That commitment on graffiti is certainly welcome. Given that much of the Underground system is under the very tight operational control of the staff, it ought to be possible so we welcome that. I wanted to go back to the point on South London, because it is certainly true that the perception in South London is that they are being discriminated against, although I take your point about previous works. I am thinking here about the proposals for trams in South London. Would you see it as part of your responsibility to talk to your colleagues in the rest of...

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

To take a slightly different tangent, you say you have had limited time to prepare yourself for taking on the Tube, which I think we all understand. Can you explain, or can Bob explain, why you refused to take the Chair of the London Underground in the period leading to transfer, as I believe the Government was offering you?

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

Come 15 July, when the transfer will take place, will you be able to announce to Londoners I do not want you to pre empt that by announcing it today, but it would be nice if you would the tangible ways in which the Tube will be better in the coming year? An electoral timetable is obviously a good benchmark for this. They will be non cosmetic changes, not just changed uniforms; they will be material changes in the quality of services, the frequency of trains, and the levels of crowding and you will set targets for that? Is that...

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

I would like to ask the 1 million euro question: are you able to tell us today that the Tube will be materially and recognisably different and better in July 2004 than in July 2003?

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

Over the last three years we have seen the Mayor carrying out a number of scurrilous personal attacks against senior Underground staff. What have been the consequences of that and how are you going to patch up that relationship?

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

Given the flawed nature of PPP which Bob has eloquently spoken on in the past, will negotiations with Government be continuing to ensure the best deal possible under an extremely flawed system? What continue to be your top demands in any ongoing negotiations?

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

As a corporate issue, are you happy with the idea of divulging that more widely across the organisation?

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

This could be viewed as a chattering classes issue at one level, but if you went around this table I think you would be hard pressed to find any Assembly Members who have not reached the conclusion that TfL is pretty closed in its dealings with us and with the public. It tends to give rather partial answers to questions when the questions are inconvenient to it. On your pay package for example, not wishing to get too embarrassing, but you are set performance targets are of great interest to all Londoners yet we have been repeatedly prevented from seeing...