• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

That is welcome, but I am concerned that that is too far off, even assuming you were to get a second term. It's a priority now and my question was: what are you actually doing now in terms of your current budget, and priorities within that?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

On a subject close to my heart, with having a four year old who has just started walking to school, you will know that an astounding proportion of peak hour journeys are actually school related - travel to and from - do you accept that that is a particular priority when we're talking about use of bikes and pedestrians and what are you actually doing to increase the proportion of school children who travel to and from school either on foot or by bike?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

In fact, this was run over two years and they did feel that it was something that you had to maintain because driver behaviour improves briefly and then ebbs again. The reason that I am particularly concerned about driver behaviour is because, although the idea of road casualties is a useful tool to actually assess how dangerous our roads are, the fact is that you might be able to cut casualties but still have fairly dangerous roads and so you have to tackle the whole issue of driver behaviour and tackle it seriously. Can I also count on your support...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

What targets have you set for your road safety ambassador?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

When the congestion charge comes in, the idea is, because of the increase of traffic on the boundary - it's a mixture of traffic lights and road safety, this one - you're going to give more time to the boundary traffic, so it can go round and round, and less time to the radials because there'll be less traffic on them. This is quite a serious question because there's been, at no time, any conversation or any report on what the pedestrians are going to do with this incessant roundabout around London in terms of how they're going to get...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

You talk about engineering. Engineering is actually very expensive. I was at a school in Southwark this week and a little sort of table shape on the road actually cost £25,000 to install, so engineering is also very expensive. It is a question of all three aspects. It is a question of the engineering. It is also the education and it is the enforcement. I'm trying to actually push the education and enforcement because these are areas that so far have not had much commitment to them.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Could I actually arrange for you to see some of these advertisements?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

You appointed me as your road safety ambassador a couple of weeks ago and, in that job, I am very concerned about the number of casualties on the road, but the fact is that it is going to be very difficult to do that. Have you seen the Northern Ireland campaign that they ran for a couple of years, a few years ago? There's some absolutely staggering 30 second advertisements about driver behaviour, for example, seatbelts, reckless driving, drink-driving, and these actually cut death and serious injuries in Northern Ireland by 50%. Were you aware of that campaign?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I wasn't expecting it to. We are living in the real world but it's just that future bus design is a topic that has been addressed. I would have expected this particular issue to have been raised and it hasn't been.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Going on from that, it isn't the first time that we have raised it as Assembly Members, and one of the points that I wanted to raise is echoing what has been said but in the context that I do support these bus services that go down roads which they haven't until now. It was two years ago when Elizabeth Howlett and I went to a public meeting on the G1 bus, where it was promised then that a new design of thinner, slimmer bus would be looked at. It was promised two years ago and I am now looking...