Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you for that. Will the decision to delay the opening until autumn next year [2019] ‑ it would be great to find out which month in autumn ‑ mean further delay in the opening of the other sections and the final full opening of the line in December 2019?
David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.
How can the public be assured that the LLDC has achieved value for money given the level of public investment in its operations and investments to date?
Are you satisfied that you are seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide community-led housing and cycling infrastructure on the Olympic Park?
Cycle Superhighway 2 stops well over a mile short of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Has the LLDC made an assessment of the extent to which visitor numbers to the park could be boosted if a proper segregated cycle lane between central London and the park were built?
In his response to 2015/0854 the Mayor called for high quality, segregated cycle lanes akin to the one running on Waterden Road to be replicated across the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Where and when can Londoners expect to see new cycle lanes of this type being rolled out in the near future?