• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Have you investigated making particular links with schools, colleges and universities, and making more extensive use of websites, which appeal to most young people?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Robert Kiley comes to us with a reputation for a history of conflict with the trade unions in New York. Some members of your Transport for London board are trade unionists - not least Jimmy Knapp, who also comes to us with a history of conflict, on the other side. How do you plan to deal with those conflicts, and do you think we can trust you as an independent arbiter of behalf of the people of London?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

I would be delighted to do the, Chair.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Clearly Mr Kiley is the first public sector fat cat - "Ken's fat cat", I think. The question in my mind is what his performance indicators will be. One of the reasons why private sector fat cats got such a bad name was that they sometimes had very simple performance indicators: you had to cut the grass once a year to get another £300,000. Londoners expect something serious out of him, and I would like to know now what those targets will be.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Yes: that was not quite an answer to my question. Preparations are quite far advanced - not set in stone, but fairly well schemed. The question was, if he thinks that you have got it wrong, does he have carte blanche to change it?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

At the point he comes in, congestion charging is fairly well advanced. Does he have carte blanche to change things if he sees fit?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Is it something that should be paid at the rate of £46,000-odd a year of public money, when one suspects that a great deal of it will involve selling the Mayor's transport policies in the Mayor's run-up to re-election?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

I seem to recall that last time you told me that Dave's chief qualification for office was that he worked on the buses and did a mean honey-roast pork. I was wondering whether we might hear of any other qualifications. More seriously, would you not agree that the only sense in making an appointment of an individual of the calibre of Robert Kiley is if he can then get on with the job, reporting direct to you as the Mayor, without any political interference from any of your allies who may have agendas of their own? Can you assure us...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Thank you, Mr Mayor, for that positive response. I know that my council constituents, as opposed to my London constituents in Chingford, will be pleased to hear of the rail proposals you have. Waltham Forest Council responded to your recent congestion charging document by saying that they wanted such transport improvements in place before congestion charging was introduced, so that it would not overload our existing crowded public transport. What measures are you going to take to ensure that we have improvements like this, and improvements to the bus service, which are also required in that area, in place before...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

You are quite right. It would also require links between the LDA and the EDA.