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• Reference: 2007/0175-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What can TfL do in the short term to make it more likely that the inadequate commuter rail services in South London are improved?

• Reference: 2007/0266-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Barnet Council received an 18.4% cut in TfL's Borough Spending Allotment this year. When inflation is taken into account, that figure is even more shocking. Could the Commissioner justify to my constituents why TfL have slashed their budget?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Your betting would be that the re-tendering will proceed on that timescale?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

When will that come to a head?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

So, again, the timescales for those discussions?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

You are aware that there is a lot of unhappiness about the potential closure of the shuttle between Victoria and London Bridge as a result of the Thameslink work. Rather than go into that, will you just give us your reassurance that you know that local opposition to that is very high?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Can I just ask you to be a bit more specific on a couple of those points. The East London Line extension phase two, which, as I understand it, is a relatively small sum of money by the standard of these things, for really just a mile or so of extra track; at what point are we going to know about that? I appreciate that, as it were, warm words are being spoken, but just pin that down for me.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

In relation to the re-tendering of the Southern Railways contract, nobody is saying that that will be handed over to TfL in the way that what you are now calling the Overground was, but, as I understand it, again, there are warm words that the Mayor and TfL are being consulted and so forth. Can you, again, be more precise about TfL's involvement in that re-tendering?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Commissioner, I am not as obsessed with the Cross River Tram as Ms Shawcross, or indeed as many of my Labour council colleagues in Camden, who are obsessed with the Cross River Tram, in the complete opposite direction from Ms Shawcross. Will you accept that there are serious concerns about this development in South Camden, in Somers Town and Bloomsbury, and other areas that the proposal passes through? Many people do not consider it a solution to overcrowding on the Northern Line, which again I experienced this morning, having to stand all the way from Finchley Central to London Bridge...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

On the subject of security at stations, are you aware, Commissioner, of the security problem of criminals fitting scanning devices on chip and pin machines at our tube station? We have had two at West Finchley in the last few weeks. They seem to have moved on from banks to tube stations. Will you be taking appropriate action? Sally Hamwee (Chair): I think the question is, 'and will you make sure it does not go onto the London Overground?' Brian Coleman (Deputy Chairman): Indeed.