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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I want to focus on the North London Line, which is absolutely important for London but also crucial for the constituency I represent, Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. If we just look at the Hackney and Islington part of it, you can see why we welcome the ambitions and the funding that are being proposed for the North London Line. Can you repeat what you were saying about your meeting with the Department for Transport? Are you saying that you were discussing a plan B, for instance, if the Railway Bill does not make it? What sort of timescales were...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

With the North London Line, if you were just able to extend the platform that would give us longer trains and you would then be able to deal with the overcrowding.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Continuing with the theme that they will do the right thing, which we hope they will, what benefits will my constituents, who rely on the North London Line, be able to see once TfL takes responsibility for this part of the network? Can you re-affirm your commitment to the 'turn-up-and-go' way of operating that I read was one of your ambitions?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

You told us earlier about the constraints of funding and how much the infrastructure improvement is dependent on that, which I think we all understand. However, in terms of raising future revenues, do you agree with the quote in the Evening Standard, a couple of days ago I think, from your board colleague, Professor Stephen Glaister that, `In future years Congesting Charging has to be a key revenue generator'?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Looking ahead, what changes could you envisage on the board as and when TfL takes on the responsibility for rail services, particularly over a geographic area beyond London?

• 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: 2005/0040-1
• 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: 2005/0035-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How would you see the TfL Board needing to change as the Government expands the role of the authority to cover some rail services outside London?

• Reference: 2005/0036-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What efforts have you made to co-ordinate and streamline communications activity within the TfL Group?