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

No one ever wants a bus or a bus stop outside their house but if we're going to achieve the `within 400 metres', obviously we've got to deal with it. A consideration of the type of the bus and also the traffic calming measures that are in the road, those issues are very important. I've forgotten the number of the bus, but it's about contract administration because there is an issue around whether someone uses a double-decker or a single-decker. Arriva buses are contracted on this particular bus route to run single-deckers, but when they haven't got one, they run...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I don't either. The request is to have a genuine openness of mind in looking at a particular issue. I would not have gone to Transport for London with a problem about parking, but we have a problem of road layout and topography and all we need is for TfL to take a more open-minded approach to these issues and not to have presumptions or assumptions one way or the other because every incident is a different one.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I want to support what Angie and Tony have been talking about because I have had exactly the same experience. There has obviously been some very good major improvement in the bus services in South London. Absolutely no doubt about that, but one impact of the growth and improvement has been that there are some areas now, some small streets, which are carrying buses and are not appropriate to do so, to the extent that I had such an amount of grief and conflict in one particular street about a particular bus - the P13 - that I went into...

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

That was an issue which was raised as a matter of concern to members at the Transport and Outer London Review and you will have a copy of that, no doubt, and work your way through the recommendations. There were only ten of them so it shouldn't take too long to form an opinion on them. Something else that was suggested to that committee was that we have bus lanes on the North Circular Road. Do you support that view?

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

A particular problem for residents of Rainham has been the withdrawal of the 348 bus service which is one of those services that travels outside the Greater London area and the difficulty with sustaining those services was identified during our Transport in Outer London Review. What steps do you propose Transport for London should take to improve the viability of services which pass through rural areas on the outskirts of London and then leave the London area?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

If I can draw your attention to another good example in my neck of the woods: it's the 272 route which London Buses have announced is going to be a new service going down two roads right in the far western corner of my constituency, Emlyn and Larden Roads. Now, the vast majority of residents are completely opposed to having a bus down that road. They point out that nearby Askew Road is a much more appropriate road for the bus to use. I am even more concerned because, having raised this issue with TfL, I got a response back...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Thank you very much for that. Everyone accepts that your bus strategy is beginning to work and that buses are running on more and different routes from before, but what this question is driving at is that to fulfil that part of your strategy, which says that everyone shall live within 400 metres of a bus route, does mean that hitherto quiet, suburban roads are being treated - if treated is the right word - to very substantial buses, in terms of size, which are suited to a more urban route rather than suburban route. If I can give you...

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

So the question is the timetable

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

You do have the power to direct and I would like some information on how this study is progressing and I think maybe not asking for you to answer it now would be more appropriate, but I would like to be written to with the timetable as far as you see it, and when you think it would be appropriate to use your powers of direction.

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

My question then is, can we please have a timetable for this particular study and at what point you will be having conversations with the boroughs?