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

But you did not answer my question about the consultation, which was what I was after, and you have already said that you are going to do a South London rail study. You did say that at Mayor's Question time some time ago. This has now sunk into the veritable black hole. Are you proposing to consult with boroughs in order to complete that study, in which case can they look forward to hearing from you in the next month?

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

Trevor Philips: Can I just ask officers to make sure that that gets on the agenda for Bureau leaders this afternoon? Let us start the process right away. Samantha Heath: On consultation, did you actually consult with boroughs before you wrote to Railtrack Property to ask them to keep the Braithwaite Viaduct?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Can I say before I start that I do feel that when senior management from Street Management in TfL attend meetings with members of the public, they show a very high calibre of knowledge of the issues on which they are consulting. I am very pleased that you say that you want to change the culture. I will give you an example as regards to the red route proposals on the A22. I attended a residents meeting yesterday, which Transport for London did not attend, advising the residents association it was not the kind of thing that they did. And...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I don't get a sense this is a big priority though.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I think we recognise and respect that principle and I don't want to take up time at the meeting exploring it further, but one tiny supplementary which is about transparency and access to information, because very often people, when they haven't got what they want, are aggrieved that they think things have happened behind closed doors and TfL have got a very much closed door reputation at the moment. Can you state in very simple terms, how you are going to open those doors up?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I am very interested to hear, Chair, Bob's promotion of Biggin Hill International Airport, and the needed transport infrastructure, but to go back to the question in front of us which I think is a very important one, I don't know of the exact wording but your manifesto said something to the effect that consultation under Ken Livingstone's mayoralty would be the most transparent and open the world has yet seen and our experience from TfL is somewhat remote from that. I think it is an issue that the Assembly should look at in greater detail and perhaps we should...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Would you accept that if perhaps TfL had consulted more accurately and specifically on the issue, that those fundamental misapprehensions which underpin your answer, and which I can pursue with you elsewhere, could have been allayed because in fact it is not necessary to make use of that facility by going down the route that is suggested by your TfL officers? Would therefore there be an advantage in thinking and consulting again before blocking off this real opportunity to create a sensible outer London orbital transport function in that part of Bromley?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

See above for written answer referred to below.

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

She has had lengthy correspondence with them in which they seem to be suggesting that it is a good idea and they want to do it.

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

Can I perhaps help return this body in some way to a state of repute by asking a question about traffic lights and it is really is about traffic lights? My constituent Mrs Eileen Palmer wrote to Transport for London about the traffic lights at the Bell Corner, Upminster on 11 October 2000 and they still have not been re-phased. So it takes considerably longer than the six months that you suggested in some case, does it not, Mr Mayor?