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• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

But do you think we would win the Games if we went for 2005 standards? Do you think we need to improve on Sydney? Presumably we do if we want to win.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Okay, fine. What sort of monitoring do you think you would be putting in place that would ensure that our promises were clear and that we would be monitoring as we progressed in terms of sustainability or regeneration?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

You are monitoring it?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

You have talked about the London-wide regeneration impact. You have talked about the focused impact in the Lower Lea Valley, which is fantastic. But how do you reassure Londoners who are concerned about the existing big strategic regeneration projects in the rest of London (Paddington Basin, King's Cross, Elephant & Castle, South Central) that regeneration funding will not be sucked away from those projects? What is the reassurance we can offer to the other regeneration schemes in London that are important?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Actually TfL are visiting Hackney next week. I just want to bring it back to the IOC questionnaire that has to detail any opposition. Perhaps Barbara could comment on that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Doubling the track?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I agree that we have to get the existing transport infrastructure right. There is a direct link from Stratford to Stansted which is growing very fast in the period up to the Games. It cannot be used. It needs two things. Firstly, the doubling of the track capacity between Tottenham Hale and Broxbourne, which was planned for completion by 2007 but is now being consigned to the distant future by the SRA. It was one of their top priorities, but now it is out. Secondly, improvements are needed to the Copper Mill junction on the link between Tottenham Hale and...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

But, at the moment, there is a link and you cannot use it; there is no way in.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003