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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

My question is to Richard (Brown). I welcome the comments you made about the fact that everything must be done to avoid Thames Gateway being `dull'. I just want to take you a bit further and say, rather than stopping it being dull, would you agree with me that perhaps one of the things that we need to see developing quite quickly, because it has not had much time spent on it, is a cultural and creative strategy for Thames Gateway, including the existing cultural infrastructure, and I would include Havering and the established centres, so that you do not...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Reference: 2003/0308
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

What transport demand modelling is currently being undertaken to establish the volume of passenger demand and the predicted transport patterns? If this modelling is being undertaken, who is carrying this work out? If it is not happening, why not? .

• Reference: 2003/0309
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

How do you see existing transport links servicing an Olympics based at Stratford? Would there be any need for new routes, access or other transport infrastructure and if so, what? .

• 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...