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• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Changing back to a different topic in view of some of the questions we have just had - and I am very conscious that our session this morning is time-limited, as you know - I do want to highlight in this area of what is different or what is not different the tremendous sense of participation you gave to the volunteers and to the Games Makers. I know that as you close there will be many Games Makers who think that possibly their options of other things they are going to do are going to finish. However, I know even...

• Reference: 2012/0003-1
• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Are you satisfied that the predictions made in your business plan, particularly in relation to the popularity of the Games and the events leading up to Games-time, stack up?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Just watching the Games you got the impression that it was a very top-down operation. Obviously the authorities in Beijing were able to direct the activities of their population, even down to telling them that they could only protest in one particular park and that type of thing. London, as you know, is very much more complex and rebellious than that. What plans have you got in place to ensure the Games can take place without making it a completely claustrophobic event for the people who have to live and work here?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Just to follow up, although I have to say most of the questions on a particular point have been addressed; I think there were great concerns when we talked about this in our subcommittees about people who are mobility impaired as opposed to necessarily disabled. The idea of just having a buggy that people can order on demand or book on demand I do not think is satisfactory, and my question to you is to ask you to look again at the transportation of people, particularly late at night when the Games finish. We are not quite clear yet, as...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Are you planning for the possibility that Crossrail might be being constructed at the same time as the Games or are you effectively leaving that out of the equation, saying, `Well, it is probably going to happen afterwards'?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Thank you. The Mayor tells us that he expects one in five Londoners to go away during the Olympics. I am not quite sure whether that is the sort of target you would have in mind. Is that something which you are relying on?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I was talking more about construction than completion because a lot of the work for Crossrail at its eastern end would be close to the Olympic Park and if it was taking place at the same time that would provide you with extra challenges that you would need to overcome. Is that something you are planning for?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

And you are satisfied the bus lanes have the capacity to be able to take this extra traffic and not disrupt the bus service?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

You told us that you have got 240 kilometres of Olympic Route Network planned. How much of that is based on existing bus lanes and how much of it is going to be new work, effectively?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

During the Games?