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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Do you think that the reason why they have made this announcement that they were wresting it from the hands of the London Mayor was precisely because you have come out so strongly against it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Have you got power so that you could step in over mixed mode?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Final question; mixed mode, which is another threat that Heathrow poses to a lot of residents at both ends of the runway, of course, as we have discussed, could happen much sooner and is a considerable threat to quality of life for people. You mentioned to me in a written answer that you were going to write to the aviation minister about mixed mode. Have you done that and what response have you had?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Do you not feel that one of the reasons why the vote went the way it did is that people have just woken up to what is going on in their name and that squalid deals with people like you ' you should know better than to have been helping yourself to the assets of poor countries like Venezuela ' is precisely what is turning them gradually against Chavez?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Is it not also true that what may be a better deal for London is a worse deal for Venezuela? The more you are creaming off more of their potential profits, the worse it is for the people who are not benefiting from it back in Venezuela?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Of course you will be aware that Make Poverty History was precisely about calling on rich nations to stop pirating the assets of poorer nations and would you not feel that you have gone against the spirit of what Make Poverty History stands for? You should be ashamed of yourself.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Are we not in a position where you are meeting one set of targets and failing on another? The fact is that they are not able to be pursued in the same way. You have to get a balance between getting people safely across the road but you have to get the traffic moving.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

We have talked about the number of traffic lights but another issue of course is the re-phasing of traffic lights. I hear what you say about national standards and we have had this before, you and I: `Ken equals red lights' and all that back in 2002, when the re-phasing started. The key to good traffic management and the responsibility of TfL, may I suggest, is to get the balance right. Yes, of course pedestrians need to cross safely but also you need to keep the traffic flowing. Would it not be fair to say that in many ways, because...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I am saying there should be a balance.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The problem is of course that traffic lights causing congestion equals traffic lights causing unnecessary pollution.