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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What about the public inquiry the ALG has called for, a cross-party call to you?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Can I ask about one other aspect? Recently, there was a call from the Association of London Government (ALG), a cross-party call, for a pause in this whole rolling out of the Congestion Charge westwards, and to allow for a public inquiry to take place, not least because we understand, and you yourself went on record to say that some very interesting trial work was being done on tag and beacon. Would it not be better to pause before you put all these cameras in and have a public inquiry to look at where we are on this whole issue?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Have you actually talked to the Government about the funding being available?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I have a concern, and I wonder if you share it, that obviously it is a very expensive site and so if that money is not forthcoming, what would happen if there was a suggestion that it could be sold off for commercial developers for non-transport usage? Do you think that is a possibility and if it were, what would your position be on it?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Therefore, you are not holding out any hope that I am going to see a sustainable transport unit this year.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I am not entirely happy about it being a policy unit because I think it is very important that it reaches right through the organisation but also that it is quite practically based. I am concerned about the status it has because, for me, this should have a very, very high-status, just because it has the possibility of transforming the way TfL does everything

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I was talking about the work on the Routemasters rather than the hydrogen buses, which cost over £0.5 million each.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you regret the decision to spend millions of pounds cleaning up the pollution from Routemaster buses now that you decided to scrap them just a couple of years later?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

With these debates about the Congestion Charge, PPP and so on, there is a danger of having a lot of heat and not much light. The existing transport strategy, the one that was consulted on several years ago, puts forward a strategy as an alternative for the PPP. Time has now passed and the PPP is now in operation, but I think we recognise that it has flaws and that it may not actually reach the end of its 30-year life. Is it not time for TfL in a cool and considered way to start to develop an alternative strategy...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

£1.6 million in external legal costs is the cost that has come from the Freedom of Information Act request that the Liberal Democrats put to you. These are the legal costs for fighting the PPP originally. I was shoulder to shoulder with the Mayor and you and we were all against the PPP as being unworkable, but this reference by Roger Evans is the first peep, quite frankly, out of the Mayor towards his now chums in the Labour Party that there is anything amiss. Do you really think it is worth waiting until the end of the year? It...