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• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Richard Tracey AM: OK. Thank you, Chair. Mr Mayor, I am rather intrigued by this line of questioning from my Transport Committee colleague Val Shawcross because she is worrying, quite rightly, about any potential loss of any of the wonderful bus services we have, but at the same time, as you and I discussed earlier, the Labour Party ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I was hoping you would bring this up. Richard Tracey AM: ‑‑ is talking about a four-year freeze in fares, a £2 billion loss ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): --hopelessly. Richard Tracey AM...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, I applaud the various elements of the announcement you have made about future TfL fares across London. Interestingly enough, on about the same day that you made your announcement, the Labour candidate for the mayoralty, Sadiq Khan ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Who? Richard Tracey AM: ‑‑ talked about freezing all fares for four years. You have obviously gone through the figures. How could he possibly make such a promise?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Richard Tracey AM: I must say that all the foreign visitors I talk to, whether I know them well or not, complain about the large numbers in central London now. It is a buzzy city but it is also, they feel, very crowded, extremely busy and quite tiring. This is a well‑targeted question that Tony Arbour [AM] has put to you about outer London. Can I ask you what you are doing particularly? How much are you spending to encourage people to take a river cruise? Indeed, they will reach Tony Arbour’s constituency. Tony Arbour AM (Deputy Chairman): They will...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Can I just ask you one or two more questions about the European dimension? It is right, is it not, that more Americans visit London as a tourist destination than any other European city? Is it also not correct that there is more trade done by this country - and by London, obviously - with Asia and with the Americas than, indeed, with Europe? My question to you, really, is: are you intending to ask a specific question in any survey you do of tourists particularly about the attractions of London as opposed to Europe or in...

• Reference: 2015/3290
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Other than the building of Crossrail 2, how will TfL seek to ensure that London's transport can cope with a population of 10 million people by 2030?

• Reference: 2015/3287
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

In Greece they are currently trialled driverless buses. Given London has a test-bed for driverless vehicles in Greenwich and has ordered a fleet of driverless trains, has TfL any plans to introduce driverless buses?

• Reference: 2015/3288
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

If TfL has not come to any formal decision on driverless buses, has TfL conducted any analyses, no matter how rudimentary, on the costs or benefits of driverless buses?

• Reference: 2015/3289
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

How much would it cost TfL in lost revenue to introduce a one-hour bus ticket?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Mr Mayor, you were talking about various measures that could be taken, perhaps, to cut down on pollution apart from the measures to do with the vehicles themselves. Could I ask about perhaps various devices in planning? In other words, in my constituency in Putney High Street we have a particular problem with pollution.

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Richard Tracey AM: Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr Mayor, do you remember that when you first became Mayor ‑‑ Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I do. It was a glorious day. Richard Tracey AM: ‑‑ I introduced you to the excellent Wandsworth Council Hidden Homes scheme? Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): I do. The ‘hobbit homes’. Richard Tracey AM: You visited one. Boris Johnson MP (Mayor of London): Yes, we did that together. Yes, that is right. Richard Tracey AM: Is that not something that should be promoted to the Government further?