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• Reference: 2005/0026-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How confident are you of funding for Crossrail? How are you going to limit the impact of construction on the local business and residential communities in central London? What are the outstanding planning issues? .... Moving on to Crossrail, earlier you alluded to the historic levels of investment we are getting into London's transport infrastructure, and this really would be the icing on the cake having the Crossrail investment put in. Where are we with the funding in light of what the Montague Report was saying in the context of today?

• Reference: 2005/0033-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How will London be affected in your view if the Thames Gateway Bridge is not built? ... ): I would like to explore what I would call the Transport Commissioner's dilemma, which is that I think it is very interesting for the whole Assembly to support a commuter rail authority, and it is very easy for us to support the principle of Crossrail, but when we come down to individual schemes, such as the Thames Gateway Bridge, the West London Tram and the Congestion Charge extension, you get all sorts of local, understandable and in many cases legitimate concerns, and...

• Reference: 2005/0040-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How will you ensure that the needs of workers are fully taken into account as part of the consultation on starting and finishing the tube later at weekends? ... What alternative transport option will be available to the current 55,000 people who use the Tube during the first hour of operation over the weekend? There are other questions related to that, so perhaps you can give me a quick answer and then a long answer by mail.

• Reference: 2005/0020-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What action is TfL taking to tackle the low success rate in enforcement of foreign vehicles who do not pay the congestion charge?

• Reference: 2005/0021-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What have been your three greatest successes as Commissioner?

• Reference: 2005/0023-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How did the recent budget assist TfL?

• Reference: 2005/0024-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What are your observations on the current stage of the New York Subway, in the context of its previous investment programmes and can this teach us anything about the continuing demands of London's Underground?

• Reference: 2005/0025-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What has TfL done since transfer of the tube to develop London Underground's property assets?

• Reference: 2005/0027-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you have a view on the value or otherwise of road humps?

• Reference: 2005/0028-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you feel that TfL works in an effective partnership with the Boroughs? We have heard a lot about the disagreements between some boroughs and TfL. Do you support the idea that boroughs who follow the policies of TfL should be given a greater freedom in their use of TfL funds?