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• Reference: 2002/0098-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What has TfL done to encourage and implement the Government Safer Stations programme? .

• Reference: 2002/0099-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What is the economic justification for the Tube driver's pay demand? .

• Reference: 2002/0100-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Do you not agree that to end the first phase of East London Transit at Dagenham Dock risks missing the opportunity to unlock regeneration potential further East? How do you propose to tackle this problem? .

• Reference: 2002/0101-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Can you describe the actions you have taken in relation to the tube strike. Have these helped to resolve it? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

That leaves me a bit more confused. You've defined the process but the problem we have is that you didn't have this as a priority when you were first elected; you then rejected it this year by saying it was unaffordable; you then, in the summer, made a commitment at a public gathering in East London that you were going to extend free travel to all under-18s; and you then, about a week later, reported that, in fact, you only meant half-price travel. We're still rather confused. What's interesting is that you can go to any meeting of young people...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I appreciate that you have got a very difficult budget round to go through with Transport for London, but I sense that you are retreating a bit further still from what you said last month, when you retreated from free travel to half-rate travel; you indicated you were hoping to do that in this year's budget; and now you're retreating from that and saying that it's an aspiration but you may not be able to fund it.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

There will be an option in your budget but you can't undertake yet that that option will be carried out.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Do you believe that there is a looming budget crisis in Transport for London which is going to make initiatives like this unaffordable?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I think we have almost done this issue to death, Chair. For the satisfaction of the Labour members and the many people we represent, I would be interested to explore, very briefly, the question of what the Liberals call the toolkit, and what I would call the framework for consultation. I think that you would have greater credibility with Londoners if you were to spell out very clearly the nature of the consultation you will carry out. To simply say that this is covered by a Planning Act, this is covered by a Transport Works Act, is all very clever...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

There is a question which I think is worth asking today, which is about transparency in Transport for London. I anticipate a slippery reply but I may be happily surprised. Do you not agree that for the top tier of Transport for London, and for those who provide direct advice to the board of Transport of London, transparency is an essential part of democratic accountability, and it would make sense for the remuneration and the other benefits of those employees, to be published in the same way as the salaries of politicians and senior executives in the private sector are...