• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

And when there is a choice between Mr Kiley and Mr Crowe, where are you going to stand?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

What are you going to do if you take over the Underground and Bob Crowe brings them out on strike? Where are you going to stand then?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Given that the RMT chose to donate £3,000 to your mayoral election campaign last time, it is quite a useful sum to them. Did that have any connection with Mr Crowe's appointment?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

So the RMT is going to be paid £6,000 per year from London Council taxpayers, is it?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

So it is on top of Mr Crowe's £57,000 per year that he gets as General Secretary of the RMT?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

How much is the rate of remuneration for board members there?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

But it is an undertaking you could voluntarily enter into. I think the two questions Londoners would like to ask are, first of all, is not Bob Crowe's role in the RMT so close to the operation of London Underground that he will always face a conflict on the issues on which he has the greatest interest? It presents a similar difficulty to that experienced by Mr Norris, who you had to fire from the TfL Board. The second question I think Londoners would ask is: one of the difficult problems in politics is sometimes you have to tell your...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

It is unfortunately not a thrill a minute for the people who use the triangle. Indeed, if there is any thrill, it is the danger for pedestrians who face very real difficulties in crossing on the crossings which are half burnt out with some chalked-out signs of `look left" or `look right". I do think it is a matter of importance for this Assembly, because this work is being done in our name because the money comes from SRB money from the London Development Agency. I do hope the Mayor can make some intervention. The Mayor has been very active...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I am grateful to hear that we are going to monitor the process but I will continue to urge you. I have given you the pictures, you can see just how dangerous it is for pedestrians, and, bearing in mind your very keen interest in giving strong priority to pedestrians, I do hope you can get involved in some intervention now to ensure the safety of pedestrians. We had a recent accident there, unfortunately a fatality, nearby, and the ambulance was delayed in the traffic. I do feel there is a need for intervention now.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I do not share your confidence in the robustness of the consultation that you refer to. Certainly, surveying the traders who are quoted in the 72%, a very large number of them - and I have all the survey results here - do not feel the consultation came to that view, and indeed, when a large number of traders expressed the view that the system was not working, they were advised by the local authority, "Well, you just don"t understand these issues and therefore your view is not of importance'. I have comment books here which have been signed by...