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

I think you are optimistic, but I wish you well with this. If there is industrial action, will you be putting in place a contingency plan so that people still have options if they want to travel into London on strike days? This is something we have not had for the last couple of years, when the Mayor has been responsible for other parts of TfL. How are you going to make sure that the Mayor, because of his backing from the unions, does not end up effectively acting as your human resources (HR) director?

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

When you talk about breaking through the culture of distrust bearing in mind the last Tube strike was only actively supported by 17% of the staff are you actually saying you are planning to go past the unions and communicate with the staff directly, rather than just talking to a few militants who might not represent everyone who wants to do a good job on the Tube?

• 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.