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• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I think you are diverting the question here. That is what you are very good at, I have to say. Every time we ask for information we are told we cannot have it. We then have to make a Freedom of Information request which takes endless time to do. The supply of information is like getting blood out of a stone, particularly from your office.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Yes, but children do not think about what contribution they are going to give in future years. They are focused on the present, quite rightly. Getting on to a bus does not cost anything, it is free. They get the idea that that is a right, that that is free. It is a very difficult thing to shift later on. It gives them quite the wrong idea. We have seen, where children get on to buses, they behave like children very often and it has an effect on all the other passengers on the bus. There are old people who...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

It is not the right message to give to children that something is free. You do not go into a sweet shop and help yourself to a handful of sweets; you pay for them. Likewise, if you are going to get on a bus and travel from A to B there should be a charge for it, otherwise children get the wrong idea that something is provided free and they can just make hay with it, as many of them appear to do.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

lot of children like to be independent; a lot of them will get on a bicycle and some of them will walk, but where travel is free on a bus they will just jump on a bus.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You mentioned that a lot of children are living below the poverty line. Undoubtedly this is useful [information] in that context but here you are dabbling in social engineering are you not?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

When you are a child you do not drive, the only option you have is public transport. The idea is that you take the bus.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Do you think that is your function?

• Reference: 2008/0390
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Why is Transport for London not making lift access an essential part of its current redevelopment of Shepherd's Bush tube station? What facilities will be provided for people with disabilities and impairments at the refurbished Shepherds Bush Station. Why can't work be phased so that at least part of the station can reopen sooner than the 9 months closure currently planned?

• Reference: 2008/0393
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

How do you account for the decline in performance on London Underground?

• Reference: 2008/0394
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Are you re-considering your plans to exempt vehicles within Vehicle Excise Duty Bands A and B from the Congestion Charge?