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

I take your point, and I think Vauxhall Cross will suffer because of this. Vauxhall Cross is near where I live I feel quite strongly about it. There is, for example, a passage that goes from the south west corner up to the north east corner, which is going to be for buses only. This is an example of a lack of understanding about the human mind by the planners, because cyclists are going to use that route, whether or not it's illegal, and whether or not there is any enforcement of that, cyclists are going to use it. It...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

But do you back the Tories on this then? Do you welcome or back their views?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Are you happy with the idea that there is what I would call a coalition of `unprinciple" in opposition to the PPP? The Conservatives have three different positions on it, the Liberals have a different one. I"m not too sure whether you agree with the Tory position, any one of the three of them, or with the Liberal position? Don't you think that there is a problem here, that basically a sort of political game is being played and it's not taking seriously the interests of Londoners in securing funding for the Tube?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Have you had specific meetings on this, have you pressured them on it, have you agreed heads of terms with them, have you discussed the finance, have you talked through the impediments, have you sat down with Treasury Officials, have you done any of that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

In that case you are surely going to be able to spell out to us the steps you have taken, as a leader of regional government, to negotiate with the Government to secure the funding for your alternative plans for the Tube. Can you spell those out for me? You may have failed, but can you spell out the different steps you`ve taken to try to achieve that objective?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Final question then. Don't you think Londoners, not politically-motivated weirdoes like ourselves, but the average Londoner, will reach the conclusion if they haven't already, that you are as much an obstacle to progress with the Tube as anyone else? And that you are merely finding yet another ditch to fight in on a politically-motivated campaign and you are basically denying funding for the Tube because you don't really have a Plan B which will secure that funding?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

The poll is extremely badly written from a market research point of view. You are going to get a very heavily biased result on it. Finally, how do you feel about saying to Londoners that they shouldn't vote in the local elections for any candidates who have supported PPP?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

I don't know if you've spotted that London Underground is doing its own poll and it actually junked a lot of the votes that didn't go in its favour because they said it was fraudulent or something. Have you spotted that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

You are implying then, I can see, that if the contracts are signed you are going to go back to the body bags argument which, I think, is a rather distasteful argument, but you are saying the Health and Safety Executive doesn't have the independence to review this and reach a conclusion about safety for Londoners?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Is their remit not to be professional and to not compromise their principles under critical pressure?