• 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...

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

What evaluation has TfL made of the implications of introducing free bus travel for under 18s? (Q15/2002 - YOUNG PASSENGERS)

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Lord Harris, can I go back to this policing initiative with the Mayor? We've heard from the Mayor this morning that there's a pilot going on. I believe that Commander Shave has been sent over to look after that initiative and set it up. I'd like to know, considering this year's budget is so tight, where the funding is coming for that? Has there been a transfer of funding from TfL to pay for this present initiative? This year I'm talking about, not the 240 we're going to recruit.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Chairman, thank Mr Godwin for that, but Chairman, if the MPA decides that this initiative, and we are talking about the CF as late as this, and this initiative is not going ahead, how are you going to tell the Mayor? No doubt, he's already got a press release winging out this very minute!

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Thank you. Now we've got Commander Shave there Chairman, I wonder if you can't answer this, perhaps he can. Does the Mayor expect next year, when he's going to get 240 for his transport initiative, for there to be a first call on police manpower, the extra officers going into the borough?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Now what I meant, Chairman, what I think concerns Londoners, is there are three crimes growing through the roof and the leaders of the Labour group here and Liberal group sit on the MPA in significant positions, and seems to have done very little to address those real issues. And that's what Londoners are concerned about, not your relationship in terms of that, and you've clearly spelt out time and time again, and today again that you didn't discuss with Lord Tope anything to do with that initiative, you didn't discuss the RAF the initiative in detail. That's what you...