• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can you explain to Londoners then how the decision was made to do a deal with the Conservatives in Westminster, by which in return for them withdrawing their opportunity to appeal against the congestion charging decision of the court, you have decided not to seek something over £1 million of legal costs from Westminster? Can you explain that to Londoners and how it was made as a corporate decision, presumably involving you?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can we maybe go back to the question? It happens I am with the taxi drivers on this issue, although not on every issue, and I think it is mistaken. It means that passengers cannot be picked up without incurring a penalty. A disabled passenger in a wheelchair cannot get into a cab at the Angel Islington without the driver running a risk of a £40 ticket. That, on the face of it, is pretty stupid. But the question about Derek; you say you have total confidence in his delivery and his management, but you are implying that key policy...

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

I think some of us might think that the criteria that you won't come clean on is actually about whether it's going to deliver you re-election or not. That would seem to be the only criteria whirling around in your mind. I don't understand what planning is going on, to actually provide Londoners, so that they can see for themselves what the basis is, on which you are going to pull this scheme after having spent so much of their money on it. What is the criteria for deciding that it hasn't worked? I asked you about this as far...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

There are so many challenges to even the idea of congestion charging that when you've had a few people working for two and a half years, costing millions of pounds, it might have been more mature to say, we need to suspend all or part of the scheme until we work out what to do. We're all holding our breath to an extent, some of us wanting it to succeed and some of us wanting it to fail. If it should fail, what's plan B?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Talking about integration within departments within TfL, what about your integration with TfL, subsequent to your remarks about scrapping the congestion charge? Because it seems deeply at odds with Derek Turner's request for six months. What is your worry, how serious is it and on what will it be based?

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

Peter Hendy does actually blame the street works of TfL for the increased level of delay to hit buses. If street works, which you make allowances for when you run buses, have caused an increase in bus delays of one-third, do you have any figures for the level of increase in delays it costs for other people using the roads, i.e. motorists and people trying to get vans and lorries around London?

• 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?