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• Reference: 2004/0049-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What discussion have there been since October with a) the Tramlink Concessionaire and b) The London South Division of the British Transport Police concerning the adequacy of policing on Tramlink? .

• Reference: 2004/0052-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

How would the Mayor characterise Liberal Democrats opposition to plans for extending congestion charging to Kensington & Chelsea? .

• Reference: 2004/0078-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

How have TOCU's initiatives in the last year benefited Wandsworth and Merton and are there plans to expand initiatives in this area? .

• Reference: 2004/0079-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Are TfL committed to improving air quality in London? .

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Reference: 2002/0075-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Is the Chair of TfL still committed to Orbirail? .

• Reference: 2002/0094-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

At MQT on 18th September you proposed that there should be a system of high speed bus links between town centres. How will you take this forward? .

• Reference: 2002/0095-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Will the Mayor look at extending 726 Express route from Bromley to Bexleyheath & Woolwich? .

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

That is an encouraging answer. During the first six months of the GLA, when you had your policy commissions, I went to an interesting meeting about what's become the draft London Plan, where Professor Peter Hall and Nicky Gavron spoke about Orbirail and the idea that this would be a key part of your Spatial Development Strategy, that you would have an orbital rail route joining up inner-city areas, and then you would have interchanges between that route and the radial routes coming out from Central London. The phrase that was used was `the city of interchange" because London was...

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

It's proceeding but it doesn't seem to have the prominence in the draft London Plan that other transport schemes have. Orbirail doesn't appear on the London diagram in the draft London Plan; there's a list of major transport schemes with their timing and it doesn't appear on that; in the Options Appraisal document for the Plan, it's not listed amongst the major projects. It's not up there with Crossrail and Thameslink 2000; it is excluded from those even though it looked like the most important of the schemes that the Plan was going to move on.