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• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

If I can go back to Silverlink for a moment, the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), as was, rejected the proposal of a commuter rail authority. Your priorities, or the benefits you saw were things like greater efficiency, more frequent services, integrating fares using Oyster and better station facilities. If you do get Silverlink Metro, how many of those benefits would we see soon? The Islington stations, for instance, on the North London Line desperately need modernising and to be made safer for passengers. The same can be said at Queens Park Station on the Watford line. You say you are...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Then it seems we can be optimistic. What about the upgrade of the stations in Queens Park on the Watford line and the Islington stations on the North London Line because they are critical in those negotiations? Can you give any assurance on that?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I think it was March 2004 when you launched TfL's bid for a London Regional Rail Authority, which the Liberal Democrats support. If I were to ask you for a progress report on the extent of the negotiations so far with Silverlink - How far has the agenda reached and what discussions are taking place?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

£1.6 million in external legal costs is the cost that has come from the Freedom of Information Act request that the Liberal Democrats put to you. These are the legal costs for fighting the PPP originally. I was shoulder to shoulder with the Mayor and you and we were all against the PPP as being unworkable, but this reference by Roger Evans is the first peep, quite frankly, out of the Mayor towards his now chums in the Labour Party that there is anything amiss. Do you really think it is worth waiting until the end of the year? It...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I think it is so serious when bailiffs arrive that actually if you get letters from people saying, `But I never got the notices' and have business accounts departments that would normally handle them, you really have to do something about the system right now and say that any of these cases are to be an exception and should go to some sort of forum where they are looked at. To have bailiffs arrive is really unacceptable when the fault may be TfL's.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I just want to support Elizabeth (Howlett) because I had not realised there were other cases of bailiffs arriving. I have just written to TfL about several where no previous notice has been received. TfL writes to these people and says that penalty notices, etc., were issued, but they were not. You have to take this really seriously because some people are not able to go to court; they are vulnerable and scared and may not have the money. This is terrifying people. They are individual cases, not hundreds of them, but I do want your double assurance that you...

• Reference: 2005/0840
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

With the approach of every election you say that the money for Crossrail will be announced shortly. Why should Londoners believe you now when you say that it will be announced after the General Election?

• Reference: 2005/0844
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

You reported in answer to questions 604/2005 that the GLA family's redundant computers are sent abroad rather than recycled and retained for use by people in London who do not have any access to IT equipment. For how long did you try to find a London based organisation before you made the decision to export this old hardware? How many recycling/reprocessing firms did you contact?

• Reference: 2005/0068-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

There seems to be some likelihood that the North London Line and other lines currently operated by Silverlink Metro will in future be overseen by the Mayor and Transport for London. Do you expect to be able to influence the terms of the new franchise when it is granted in the autumn of 2006, and what conditions would you want the new franchisee to fulfil - for these particular lines?

• Reference: 2005/0066-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Car clubs claim to reduce car use by five to one. Do you support car clubs in Greater London?