• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

From your conversations with ministers, what prospects do you feel that there is for the West Croydon extension of the East London line taking place? It is very important in terms of regeneration there?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

In effect, you're creating a spur.

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

I'm following up on this one. As you know, this is supported by Nicky Gavron, Haringey Council and David Lammy. Even though it breaks my heart to support anything that Tottenham Hotspur do, it is pretty critical to their regeneration project. Do you think that you can say anything more positive about it, given that the line is already there? This doesn't involve a huge amount of money, but a positive steer from you could make a huge difference to Haringey Council's ability to lever in funds to get the regeneration of that area going.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

As someone who used to live in Leytonstone, I know a lot of people who live in Walthamstow. One of the concerns that they have about the Victoria Line is that particularly at rush hour, a lot of services terminate at Seven Sisters, and the service they receive in Walthamstow is very patchy, beyond the Seven Sisters point. Have you done any work to assure that this proposal which is being put forward of adding an extension to Northumberland Park, which I think we would all support, isn't actually going to result in damage to services further for the people...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

No, the advice before it started. What was the advice from your Officer about whether you should go ahead with it?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

What was the advice you received from your Officers about this experiment when it was implemented at the end of last year?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

So, speed was the priority, not safety?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

The Transport Policing Initiative, mark one - the 55 bus route conductors. What was the main purpose, Ken, of those conductors on those routes?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

You have gone out of your way on this particular initiative to say, "This is my money, this is Transport for London"s money. We know what's best. We're going to buy it off the police'. You can't then turn round and say, "It"s a police priority issue'.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Can I just point out that in that interview, she specifically made the point that she wasn't merely speaking for people like herself, she was also speaking for the many other women of all sorts of salary grades, who find themselves working late in London, and who do not feel safe, travelling home on public transport, despite your initiative, which as I say we support, but has not really got very far yet. Now, what is your message to all those other women then, who also feel equally unsafe on public transport? You don't have to be rich to feel...