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• Reference: 2007/0275-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Motorists driving five year old petrol engined saloons with automatic gearboxes, like a Mondeo or maybe an older VW Beetle, will pay £25 a day Congestion Charge and no residents' discount, while those who buy BMW's newX5 - the definitive "Urban 4x4" - will not. Is it fair that these people will lose their residents' discount and will have to pay £25 a day, while their wealthy X5 owning neighbours get away with 80p? And do you realise that the impression of congestion charging you are giving is directly damaging the chances of it being introduced in other cities once...

• 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?

• Reference: 2007/0268-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Does the new contract with IBM allow for the fact that a different Mayor may wish to abolish the Congestion Charge? Are there any exit charges written into the contract and if so what are they?

• Reference: 2007/0269-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What is TfL doing to reduce road congestion?

• Reference: 2007/0270-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What proportion of TfL's budget is spent on roads and what are your priorities for road investment?

• Reference: 2007/0273-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Are you concerned that the policy of excluding private cars from Olympic venues will create the same access problems experienced by the Athens Olympics and the Dome?

• 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: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I noted from the report on it that the short term impact on air quality, I quote, 'is expected to be small and the whole life impact is expected to be minimal.' That is what has been said about it by your own officials. Is that not simply the case that this is what it is about? It is about revenue raising and nothing to do with the environment at all?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Surely that itself is deeply unfair because that means people who have bought them and did not know, residents, are now facing having to pay what really amounts to penal taxation. It is; it is heavy taxation at the most extraordinary level for something like this and it also encourages them, surely, to change cars, to add yet more cars possibly to their stable?