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  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    There was not very much information in the answer which is very disappointing because London desperately needs the upgrades to the Tube network which is the lifeblood of the capital. Here we are, well into the PPP and projects are slowing down. Do you have some idea of the additional costs that we are going to incur?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    They are already 18 months late anyway, so you are adding another 18 months.

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    There are not only those costs there are the cost overruns incurred before and also the lost time. You have estimated 18 months' to 2 years' delay which is going to increase the costs while contracts are reconfigured. Tim O'Toole [Managing Director, London Underground Limited] told us last week that some key personnel have left so it has become quite difficult to understand the status of work against contracts and sub-contracts. This is all becoming a nightmare, isn't it?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    The number of lost customer hours to the Underground has got worse not better in the last year, so where are all these improvements?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    For people who get frustrated waiting because there is a problem on the District Line; that is going to be a much longer wait than we thought now then?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    The plan is that they will start to see improvements as early as next year.

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    When we asked Tim O'Toole last week he was not prepared to give any estimates of time because we are in freefall at the moment.

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    Are you therefore going to guarantee that the new trains for the sub-surface lines are going to be installed from next year?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    Which projects are going to be cancelled?

  • Metronet administration (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 20 February 2008
    For example, you were fiercely critical of Metronet's shareholders: WS Atkins, Bombardier and Balfour Beatty. Are you going to let any contracts to these companies?