• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Traffic congestion is a major problem in outer London as well as in inner London. Will you tell us what you are going to do to tackle that? In particular, will you encourage TfL officers to work with boroughs to see how the project in Perth, Australia, can be implemented and applied, perhaps in pilot schemes, in outer-London areas?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Do you accept that, even with all the local employment possibilities that you describe for inner London, and even with the best public transport infrastructure in the world, there are still some natural limits to the number of people you can cram into and out of central London every day? And will you say that?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I will try to be concise. You painted that gloomy picture of employment prospects in outer London, and said that people will still be wanting to go into the centre; but there are some natural limits to that. We cannot just keep cramming more and more people into central London. Have you given up on a more dispersed employment pattern as a vision for London altogether? That seems to be the direction in which "Towards a London Plan" was heading. On the one hand, the Economic Development Strategy document did not paint such a gloomy picture: there was not quite...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

One of the problems for that, I think, is how you co-ordinate the major strategic developments in London. If you are looking at a timetable just within TfL, what do you do about the major strategic developments such as the Elephant and Castle, when all these things need to lock in together? At the moment, for example, TfL does not have a Lambeth borough officer, so there is little co-ordination within TfL and across the other strategic developments - not necessarily because of internal disorganisation, but because those links have not yet been created.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

You talk about the fact that you would be more likely to get something to go towards a big capital project but, I am asking again, have you thought about how you would actually secure that bond?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

No, they are not. There is a 10.00pm cut-off. This is a peculiar curfew. I have asked a number of people in the hierarchy of Transport for London; nobody understands it. I have witnessed, at first hand, children or minors paying the full fare after 10.00pm. I would like an unequivocal statement on what should happen. And on the buses there should be a notice so that this does not continue. I asked you this question last year and I was told that there is no difference; I get the information from Transport for London; and time and again I...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Could you tell me what fare a 10-year old should pay at 10.00pm?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Do you believe that there is a looming budget crisis in Transport for London which is going to make initiatives like this unaffordable?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

There will be an option in your budget but you can't undertake yet that that option will be carried out.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I appreciate that you have got a very difficult budget round to go through with Transport for London, but I sense that you are retreating a bit further still from what you said last month, when you retreated from free travel to half-rate travel; you indicated you were hoping to do that in this year's budget; and now you're retreating from that and saying that it's an aspiration but you may not be able to fund it.