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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

On this issue of economic boost, clearly it would give London and economic boost if we committed to a living wage for all the workers. Is this going to be -- I know the ODA is working with London citizens to ease this forward. Is this going to be living wage Olympics? Are we going to be globally embarrassed?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I come on to LOCOG? Let us talk about a deadline that LOCOG actually had, which was for a sustainability management system that was promised immediately following the election of the host city. As far as I know that still has not happened.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

David, I am actually one of the stakeholders and also of course the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA) are also stakeholders and neither of us is happy. In fact, for example, RIBA actually said `the ODA sustainability policy is a disappointing missed opportunity'. From our point of view, we do not how you can call some of these measures exemplary, you know, when they will already be backed by Building Regulations by 2010. It has got to be bigger than something we are getting two years before the Olympics. You know, whether it is water usage, or the energy...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Forgive me, I do not doubt your intention to make this the greenest Olympics ever. I do not doubt that, but I do doubt your ability to do it without really good advice. One of the big issues that really offends me is there is going to be a commission for sustainable London 2012, and there seems to be delays in getting this going and the fact is you need that scrutiny body. It is very, very important for you to have that, because there is expert advice there, on hand, with an overview of the sort of thing that...

• Reference: 2003/0241
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Will the information provided to people during the current consultation on the East London River Crossing include an assessment of the impacts of extra traffic on air quality and health in East London? If the building of this bridge does generate extra traffic, will it make it more, or less likely that you meet the Governments targets, and the E.U. targets, for air quality in the boroughs of Newham, Greenwich and Lewisham? .

• Reference: 2003/0242
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

In the London Mayor's response to Jenny Jone's question 760/2003 he states that 'the options for river crossings were considered in a range of earlier studies'. Did any of these studies look at alternative sites for a road river crossing? Did such sites include provision of a local bridge with only one lane each way for private motorised transport? Did any of these sites include a bridge with provision for only buses, pedestrians and cyclists? .

• Reference: 2003/0243
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Do you accept the conclusion in the John Elliot report 'a solution looking for a problem' (T2000, Mar 03) that the East London River Crossing will be capable of handling between 6,000 to 8,000 vehicles an hour in the morning peak? .

• Reference: 2003/0246
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

The TfL document on transport growth and the London Plan has a predicted 11% rise in motorised traffic across London by 2016. This is based upon the assumption that the increases in public transport capacity will happen and that if they don't then the result will be more over crowded trains, buses and tubes. Do you think that it is realistic to assume that car traffic won't grow faster if we get the population growth, the development growth, but not the increased public transport capacity? .

• Reference: 2003/0248
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Why are plans to widen the M25 crucial to London's prosperity? Has TfL been pressing for road widening as its contribution to the Orbit Study? Have TfL been slowly slipping back into a road building approach? Do you feel that the proposed large scale investment in laying fresh tarmac in London is preventing investment in traffic reduction measures, such as Safe Routes to School, car sharing, workplace travel plans, travelsmart, etc' .

• Reference: 2003/0252
• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Does TfL support a policy of developing LU property to maximise financial gain, or are other considerations of equal or greater importance? .