• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

So is that it? You are not even thinking about it.

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

I must say I am delighted with that answer, Chair, but I will have to send it away for text analysis.

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I want you to answer this question very carefully, Ken, because my question is about the safety and delivery for young people in London and it is not very often that we have anybody under 18 in an Assembly meeting. We do have one today, so you should be very careful what you say. We talked some time ago about TfL and safety. Well, traffic lights are an aspect of safety. John Biggs said that. I would like to know what steps TfL is taking to review safety of young people including traffic lights, but principally I am thinking about...

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

The question was around delivery and amending your priorities to support Londoners. Ken Livingstone: This isn't delivery on the A1306 Heathway Chequers Lane by any chance? The Chair: I did send an email around alerting members to the fact that we should be trying to ask supplementaries which relate to the initial question. I am sure your ingenuity will find a way to ask the question you want to ask related to traffic lights. Ken Livingstone: I still think it was the A1306 thing that John was going on about. Samantha Heath: The air quality on that particular road. You...

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

What contribution has TfL made to developing the Mayor's Air Quality Strategy? (Q12/2002 - AIR QUALITY STRATEGY)

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

The question is, can we have confidence that Transport for London can in less than 6 months make a very simple change to a matter of enormous public safety concern for Londoners?

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

Well, that is a very noble aspiration and I am happy to support that and you have quite a lot of resources already, but the question at the heart of this is a very simple one. You have a junction where kids have to cross to go to school, it doesn't work effectively, it needs to be re-programmed, a very mundane thing, you could design it on the back on a fag packet and yet it takes the people that you chair and command, six months on average to re-design that. And that is not acceptable in terms of Londoner's...

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

The answer to that is that you will have to guess because certainly that may or may not be an issue on which I have a concern, but I have other channels for raising individual casework. The reason I am asking this question is twofold. First of all there is a very real safety issue about traffic light control junctions, particularly where there are pedestrian issues there. Secondly there is a question about delivery and the capacity of Transport for London to actually manage the very simple, basic, bog standard day to day things rather than getting carried away with...

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

Whilst we are on the subject of your correspondence with the public, I have here a document from your Public Liaison Unit about handling correspondence and consultation with Transport for London and it talks particularly about responding to VIP correspondence by a deadline of ten working days. This document identifies VIPs who write to them as Ministers of the Crown, MPs, Councillors, Chief Executives, Trade Union Senior Representatives, other representatives of organisations e.g. taxi trade organisations, sometimes members of the public. There does not appear to be any reference either to members of this Assembly or to members of the...

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

If I can refer you to Leytonstone Town Centre, another area close to my heart, where the traffic lights there took over one year to be re-phased and Waltham Forest Council referred to Transport for London in a council meeting as a disgrace to public service. Would you agree with that definition from Waltham Forest Council, not themselves a shining example, it has to be said, and again this is another example of the traffic light phasing taking longer than the six months that you have declared it is? What steps are you actually taking to improve the service provided...