• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

You talk about engineering. Engineering is actually very expensive. I was at a school in Southwark this week and a little sort of table shape on the road actually cost £25,000 to install, so engineering is also very expensive. It is a question of all three aspects. It is a question of the engineering. It is also the education and it is the enforcement. I'm trying to actually push the education and enforcement because these are areas that so far have not had much commitment to them.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Could I actually arrange for you to see some of these advertisements?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

You appointed me as your road safety ambassador a couple of weeks ago and, in that job, I am very concerned about the number of casualties on the road, but the fact is that it is going to be very difficult to do that. Have you seen the Northern Ireland campaign that they ran for a couple of years, a few years ago? There's some absolutely staggering 30 second advertisements about driver behaviour, for example, seatbelts, reckless driving, drink-driving, and these actually cut death and serious injuries in Northern Ireland by 50%. Were you aware of that campaign?

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

I wasn't expecting it to. We are living in the real world but it's just that future bus design is a topic that has been addressed. I would have expected this particular issue to have been raised and it hasn't been.

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

Going on from that, it isn't the first time that we have raised it as Assembly Members, and one of the points that I wanted to raise is echoing what has been said but in the context that I do support these bus services that go down roads which they haven't until now. It was two years ago when Elizabeth Howlett and I went to a public meeting on the G1 bus, where it was promised then that a new design of thinner, slimmer bus would be looked at. It was promised two years ago and I am now looking...

• 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?