• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

My question, which John and Jennette both touched on, is the design of interchanges. Now, the question is in two parts, one is on the permanent works as it finally emerges. And secondly, the temporary work and how we live with the change as it is being worked upon. The first one would be, a couple of designs that have come to my attention, which Richard Rogers has been working on, which really present buses completely separately from the rest of the road. The perception of crime is a big issue. Waiting at a bus stop where only one bus...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I think it is a rogue driver. It is a tout, yes. If we had that prominence on the side of a cab, it would give confidence to youngsters that they are getting into the right kind of cab. Now, you have made mention in your answers to colleagues around the table, that it is an issue of legalities and issues of plying for trade. I feel uncomfortable with that answer, and I appreciate there is the issue that people might abuse that notice to ply for trade, but this is an issue of people using minicabs that they have...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I think it is appropriate this is fitted in to follow the questions that my colleagues John and Jennette asked about safety. I am particularly concerned about the issue of the safety of youngsters who come out of the Croydon night time economy looking to get into any minicab that is available. And this is why I have asked you on two previous occasions, as to whether it would be possible to urgently expedite the issue of allowing minicabs to be able to show prominently on the side of their cabs that they are bona fide. You are obviously very...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Well, I think that is all very commendable and I wish you well with all of that, but will you commit to the secure station scheme which is about lighting and design and some of the other issues outside what the Transport Police themselves can do? There are questions about the Transport Police in terms of the Met as well.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

As you know, Mayor, the Assembly has been doing quite a bit of work on safer routes for women; well for everyone, but particularly the barriers for women. Of course, one of the things that come up quite often is the secure station scheme. Given that only 4% of the country's stations are now accredited with that scheme and apparently only 11 Tube stations, I was wondering when and as you get control of the Tube, if ever, whether you would give a commitment to have 100% of stations completed in that scheme within 10 years, if you are still...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Is that a reflection on your status or a reflection on your value to Londoners?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Mr Mayor, it is very much appreciated the work you have been doing to try and protect women in the streets of London. I have two grown-up daughters and it is an issue how they get home late in the evenings from whatever entertainment they are at. It is appreciated that you have acknowledged that more needs to be done. But when street crime figures were going through the roof and women were extremely vulnerable within that group of individuals and the Prime Minister was getting very hot under the collar about it, did he call you into these meetings...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

As and when you stand for re-election, will minicabs in London be licensed by then? Will it be something Londoners can judge you by?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I would like to explore with you, Ken, a couple of high profile and effective initiatives that you could be pursuing and I would like to hear from you your reasons for perhaps not pursuing them. You talked about Aldgate, for example, but there are many transport interchanges in London where people feel that they are going into an unsafe area as soon as they come out of the entrance of the interchange. It seems to me that you could do a lot of effective high profile work on addressing that. The second aspect, which would be enormously high profile...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Thank you, I will take up that offer. To cycle in London you have to be a fairly aggressive personality, and cyclists are going to use that route because the safe route is so slow. It all depends on how the lights are run, and those sequences mean that in some directions it's going to be very slow for cyclists - which they simply won't accept. I think it is impractical to keep that space for buses, unfortunately, but the fact is that it's going to be used by cyclists.