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

I think we have a genuine problem here that traffic and transport and congestion issues have become more and more political issues over the last few years. Any mayor is going to get into difficulties on this but I think you compound the problem for yourself - and I would like you to address this point - by being unclear as to what the objectives of a particular scheme are. If you have a busy town centre, there are problems about pedestrians, traffic, deliveries, safety. When you are doing a particular scheme you need to be clear whether it is...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I understand your reluctance not to criticise Croydon Council over this because your own record at TfL of consultation with local people over schemes you introduce is particularly poor. What steps are you taking to actually improve TfL's consultation regime to make sure that businesses and local people and drivers are consulted about the schemes which you introduce?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I accept there is no alternative route, but this is something else.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

The Liberal Democrats have been fairly staunch in their support with the caveats and with the portions, and I think one of the areas which we have always highlighted are the problems on the boundary and the problems of Kennington Lane. Therefore, until such time as you go live, the actual traffic impacts are variable, the social impacts are unknown. It is obviously an area of risk and I think the rezoning of the station, called for by Southwark and by the eggs, is something you should give higher priority to as well as being probably the worst hit parts...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

You have often said, Ken, about congestion charging and bringing it into London, but you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. I have this petition from the residents of Southwark and Lambeth, round Kennington Lane, because, whilst I have zero sympathy with Westminster's case against you because it is politically motivated, I do have sympathy for the residents in this campaign by the Liberal Democrats. That would be a small gesture in the right direction for the residents who are the eggs in your omelette. Therefore, I would ask you to go further than you have just said by...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Well, their predictions are proving right, aren't they?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

You wait until you see the petition that is coming your way.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

I have also got an item that I would like TfL to put right to the top of its agenda for change, and I am talking about a very unloved and unwanted bus route which was rammed into a totally unsuitable residential road, by TfL, against virtually all the residents saying they did not want it. They pointed out at the time that it was the wrong sort of road and that, with parking for residents up both sides of the road, buses going in both directions would not be able to pass each other. The Chair: Angie, this actually...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

Partly a point of information, because this is my constituency. I first raised the issue of zoning of the Tube stations on 20 December 2000 and there has been quite a lot of correspondence with TfL since then. I wonder on the issue of congestion charging in Kennington whether the Mayor would join me in condemning not just the petty party politics of this but the fact that Liberal Democrats, locally and across London at the GLA, seem to be able to say completely contradictory things. I do think the public expect us to act in a more consensual and...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 July 2002

That is not really good enough because in the part of London which I represent, given the targets that have been set for us, we are hard put to know where they are going to be, and we were told by your advisers that they knew where they were going to go. Well, if they know, we want to know and we want to know soon, otherwise there will be blight.