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

How does your strategy deal with all those officials and spectators and competitors who will be landing at Heathrow on the other side of London and do not have that direct link to get to Stratford? Do they get on the Piccadilly Line or the Heathrow Express and then change and get on the Central Line, the most crowded section of the Tube, to get to Stratford? It is all a bit hard to believe. Or do they use the bus?

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

• 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.