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

What I am getting at is that on one hand you are saying TfL has developed a better culture and are ready to engage in proper consultation before decisions are made, but your quote on consultation generally is, "I"m rather cynical about this exercise, we all go through it, we all pay lip service'. So there is a bit of a dichotomy between what you say and what you do, is there not?

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

At a meeting with Derek Turner recently I suggested to him that it might be an idea for TfL to take a pro-active role in consultation because as you would know recently from a meeting we all had with you around the A243 in Kingston, it ends up as a huge problem if you don't deal with it properly at the beginning. So I suggested he went and held a public meeting with locally elected representatives, with all the local people, with all the parties, and the Council and he said, "What a good idea". But there is a cultural...

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

I have got issues around Sutton and Tower Hamlet and Camden but I will deal with those in a written question, but did you actually take any action because last time you said, "Name me names of people that have refused to meet". I named you names in writing, I never got a response and you seemed to take no action so after this meeting when I name you names again, you can assure me that you will take up my suggestion.

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

Thank you, I welcome that, but it is somewhat overdue because relationships have soured because of some of the consultations that have gone wrong and relationships between Transport for London and the boroughs at local level have not gone well and I have tackled you before in Mayor's Question Time over specific instances in boroughs around London where TfL have actually refused to meet with locally elected representatives or local people for that matter. So I have some questions arising from issues around London. In the new protocol or guidance, I assume you accept that local councillors and local councils...

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

As she may not be here in 2010, have you broken down that strategic objective into year-by-year targets? If you haven't set targets on a year-by-year basis, how will you know - if you have to replace her - whether you're doing it fairly or not. This is an accountability thing and this accountability thing is not your strong point, is it?

• 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...