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Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
So what's your test of failure?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Len Duvall OBE
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
Can we turn to implementation of the strategy? Are you not -- by your own admission in the past you've been " someone who has a light touch on certain officers. Are you not slightly concerned about Mr Kiley"s restructuring, planning and integration and the blurring of edges within TfL?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
If that's so and you're not very successful, do you expect Londoners to say, "Well, if you can't get money for London, what good are you as a London mayor?".

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
Mr Mayor, in your Transport Strategy you have said that in order to resolve London's transport crisis you will need and I'm going to quote, "The allocation by government of a level of financial resources that begins to address the prolonged problem of under investment" Now given that you as a so called independent campaigned for the re-election of the Labour government and the government has under spent something like £8 billion, how much extra money have you actually got for London?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: John Biggs
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
So they are the performance criteria by which his bonus will be determined. And can the Assembly have sight of them because it has proved difficult to get our hands on.

Routemaster buses (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 04 April 2001
If you would; because this is the one organisation of which you have retained the chairmanship. We have recalled all day that you are Chairman of TfL. Throughout your campaigning and the first 11 months of your mayoralty, you have stressed partnership working. The one organisation of which you are Chairman seems to be failing in its partnership working. I know you have been successful in your persecution of the pigeons and your appointment of the cartoonist: are you treating this all as a bit of a joke?

Routemaster buses (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 04 April 2001
I thank the Mayor for that answer, and I am more than happy to meet his staff from TfL to discuss and identify individual routs and bus numbers. What mechanisms are in place for co-operative working between the police and TfL?

Low Emission Zone (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Samantha Heath
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
So the other point is we could have moved a lot farther with low emission zones if you'd agreed to fund phase one, or phase two a lot quicker. Is that then another mistake that you've made?

Low Emission Zone (Supplementary) [10]

  • Question by: Samantha Heath
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
Yes, but if you're going to impose low emission zones in 2004, it would be a good idea to put it in this strategy, quite honestly and to warn people in advance. And you're committed to it, by the looks of it. The other point that you've actually made, quite strangely today, is you want to make it difficult. It's not difficult; it's easy. The filthy diesels that are belched by the buses, the freight and the taxis. That's where you want to hit it. You do not want to go messing around with difficult to achieve low returns which...

Low Emission Zone (Supplementary) [9]

  • Question by: Samantha Heath
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
I'm going to ask a couple of short questions. Please make it absolutely clear, if you want low emission zones so much and you do not want the cost of low emission zones to be unnecessarily high, why on earth didn't you warn the freight industry in your Transport Strategy that low emission zones might be likely? Looking at the freight section of the Transport Strategy it doesn't mention low emission zones at all. Do you think this is a mistake?
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