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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

In terms of trying to influence franchises, I hope that Transport for London will continue to put pressure for the earliest possible resumption of use of the former Eurostar platforms at Waterloo because it seems quite ludicrous when commuters from right across south London are suffering from inadequacy of capacity that we are paying out public money for these to remain mothballed. It is not your fault, despite the Department having good notice of that, so I hope you will use your leverage there. Secondly, when you look at the question of the franchise and the Route Utilisation Strategy, can...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I am grateful for that. Perhaps we can follow up some of those specific points on funding outside the meeting? I am happy to do that. I know, for the record, that TfL remain very firmly committed to the Woolwich station; that is very important to my constituents. That was the other point I wanted to raise. If you put aside the question of the Woolwich station, my reading of the Plan does not suggest there is very much for people in South East London. The Thameslink upgrade is the one thing that might be of use. Can I just...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I think you and I would agree about the desirability of Crossrail being funded, but whenever I talk to colleagues who seem to have spent half their lives in the House of Commons on the Bill Committee, they frankly say: `We think we may be wasting our time because there is absolutely no prospect of the money coming from Government'. What concerns me is that we have seen the Treasury, quite wrongly as I think you and I agree, fighting like cats in a sack over the Woolwich station, which is a tiny percentage of the cost, but clearly essential...

• Reference: 2006/0418-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Anti-social behaviour on buses is a growing problem, made more important considering the central role buses play in TfL's philosophy. Can you detail what measures you are taking to tackle this problem, particularly in the outer London boroughs? What factors would you identify as being central to this problem?

• Reference: 2006/0463-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Upon conducting my own consultation of residents in Oldfield Road, the overwhelming majority do not agree with TfL's decision to install bus shelters at any or all the stops on the road. The main reasons for this are that the bus service is only an hourly one, meaning that residents get to the stop in time for the arrival of the bus, rather than wait to `turn up and go', and that bus shelters are increasingly attracting graffiti and vandalism. Can you therefore detail, a) How many visits have been made to these shelters by TfL Officers, b) How many...

• Reference: 2006/0464-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The Mayor's Transport Strategy states; 'shelter, seating, lighting and maps should be provided at the great majority of stops.' However, TfL tell me their policy is to install shelters at all stops that can physically accommodate them. Whilst this may be sensible and desirable in most parts of London, the situation is vastly different in the outer London boroughs, such as in my constituency, where a blanket policy of putting shelters at almost every stop is not always the correct solution. The statement from the Transport Strategy gives flexibility for TfL to take this into account, yet this is not...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

He is not a contractor, so I think that little sneer does not work, Mr Hendy.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I will come with you.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I am not going to get involved in the details of an argument between you and Miss Hoey, but I am concerned more generally about the style that that implies. That is the point I was interested in. Can I raise one simple other point on the Transport Strategy, which you rightly referred to? I do not regard you as a `bus nut' or typecast by any manner of means, but the Transport Strategy highlights the fact that, particularly in outer London, the private motor car will remain, certainly in the foreseeable future, the major means of transport for most...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

If it were just businesses I think you would have a perfectly valid point. I suspect that many of us will have had similar experience of our constituents who feel that TfL, despite the endeavours that have been made and despite some progress, of course, is still a desperately unresponsive bureaucracy. Do you agree that it is important that the Commissioner sets a tone for being very reasonable in their dealings with public representatives? Consequently, can I assume that we will not get into another situation of an unseemly spat between yourself and a London MP like Kate Hoey, who...