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• Reference: 2007/0262-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What is Transport for London doing to speed up plans to make the former Eurostar platforms at London Waterloo operational as soon as possible?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

You are very proud that you have taken over the former Silverlink North London line and clearly there are going to be substantial improvements there, but the vast bulk of the improvements that you are proposing to make to the line itself, are towards the east. Can you tell me what work you have done in considering extending the services of that line to the south west.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

My office has been in discussion with South West Trains and they would be perfectly happy for ' clearly because it is extra custom ' their tracks to be used. Has there been discussion over dual use of tracks for any further extension of the line really anywhere in London, not just in this particular patch?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I asked the Mayor about the situation with Malden Rushett, and I was joined in that by my colleague Bob Neill who says that he has similar problems in his constituency, where the LEZ (Low Emission Zone) does not actually follow the Greater London boundary. We have farmers who have farms split by the Low Emission Zone. The Mayor was asked whether he would look at that and alter the boundary. The Mayor said he would not. Would you care to advise the Mayor, when you next see him, that it would be sensible to do that?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So what is your shopping list then? What goes? What is Plan B?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

If, as you say, it would be unrealistic to publish in your glossy brochure the things that you cannot do, why does your glossy brochure not have health warnings written over it to say: `All of this is dependant on the Government bailing us out. All of this is dependant on us getting the extra fares'? Would that not have been a more honest way of coming to Londoners, rather than presenting this glossy document? Why is one of the things in your 2025 document not an undertaking to get rid of all the fare paying evasion that takes place...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Are you able to list for us, because this is a very near future thing, how much you envisage fare rises to increase over the next five years? Specifically, what is the fare increase that you have in mind for the year 2008/2009?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So let us get this clear. You are saying that it is not you who sets the fares, it is the Mayor who sets the fares? On the assumption that the Mayor sticks to raising fares in line with the RPI ' I'm not sure that we can make that assumption, but let us assume that he sticks to RPI - it is not likely that that is going to cover your entire shopping list is it?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Thank you very much for that. I found Transport 2025 absolutely fascinating and I very much hope it is not fiction. What does concern me, and I am sure concerns Londoners, is the gap between income from the fare box and the increase in expenditure which is indicated in the report. The income from the fare box is estimated to go up by 31%, but your expenditure is estimated over the period to go up by 48%. How are you going to meet that funding gap?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

All of that is entirely dependant on the goodwill of Government. At the end of the day, you are going to have to seek to find the funds yourself. There are three alternatives which you set out in Transport 2025. There is the option of increasing fares, and I would like you to set out precisely what your proposals are for increasing fares over the period because you indicate that you can keep down the increase in fares over the period to an increase in the Retail Price Index (RPI) but, as I have indicated, for you to meet all...