• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can you just confirm to us here, including the Londoners who have taken their time to come here today, that the re-phasing of the traffic lights that TfL has done, is actually in line with best practice so that it's not only the fit and the quick that can get across in one go at the lights? Also, whether the re-phasing of lights will continue beyond the advent of congestion charging?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

This is really not good enough. I'm sure you can do all that monitoring. What you are not telling us is, so what's it going to be when you do the monitoring.? Is it going to be X number of cars and if so, let's find out how many will be a success or failure? Is it going to be the speed with which traffic moves through London? You haven't yet mentioned what the impact is going to be on local businesses that are going to be severely impacted by this. What are the actual measurements, not how you're going...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

There, clearly, are grounds for improvement. The most recent report from Peter Hendy to the TfL Board, identified lost bus miles. Delays of bus services in London have increased by one third in the most recent quarter. Why has that increase happened and why is it the biggest increase since you actually took control of the bus service in London?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Are you happy with the level of co-ordination that exists between TfL's Street Management and TfL's Surface Transport?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

To carry on with this theme that John [Biggs] has addressed, my particular area of concern is about women's safety. In May, I asked you a question about women's safety, in terms of their ability to take up employment in London. You said, if I produced the evidence, you would look at it. I have delivered the report to your office and what I am asking is that when we meet, you do have some solutions from TfL that we can go back to the health organisations, particularly nurses across London. They are saying that they feel unsafe on the...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

There was some good stuff in the LGA report on allotments and also a welcome commitment in The Bio-Diversity Strategy as well. Did you realise that waiting lists for allotments in some boroughs can be up to eight years and, given the move towards higher densities, it's going to be even more vital that we have allotments, so there'll be even more demand for them? What action do you propose, specifically, to try and reduce waiting lists on allotments around London?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Mayor, is that not a bit late after the opening of a brand new building, when we do have requirements for access for the disabled and, indeed, you have built a career over 30 years on minority issues? And yet here, in this brand new building, when you could have fulfilled that promise, you have utterly failed?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Mayor, you must be very proud of this building and how it is, as Her Majesty described it yesterday, "open and accessible". Are you very proud of it? The Mayor: I am indeed. Richard Barnes: Can I ask, then, why the disabled have only access here through the loading bay?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Chair, it is a point that you have already covered about the questioning, but I understand there was a User Group about this building. It was a question to you, Chair, to investigate this. My view, as I have been told from some of my questions about disability access, is that there is access to the building. I think people should come in through the front entrance, not through the back or through any lifts in the back room, and I just want to be clear about that.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can I add that if Labour do not choose Nicky Gavron as their candidate and chooses instead Trevor Phillips or some other people, would you then consider putting up Assembly candidates?