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  • Achievements as Commissioner for Transport (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    If you will be indulgent, I just want to say something before I ask my question. When we all came onto the Assembly I think all of us knew that London's transport had years of under-investment and was in a terrific mess. Many of us had looked to New York and the subway and how it had been saved and improved out of recognition, so that when Bob Kiley agreed ' I think it was that way round ' to be TfL's Commissioner, many of us felt it to be an inspired appointment. Of course, there was much more to...
  • Junction dangers in Southwark (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 14 January 2004
    In Haringey I just introduced a pilot for six months. It has so dramatically cut accidents; it did not stop the flow of traffic in a very big way, and the engineers were converted. I actually do not think the answers are so complicated.
  • Transport (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2003
    Doubling the track?
  • Transport (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2003
    I agree that we have to get the existing transport infrastructure right. There is a direct link from Stratford to Stansted which is growing very fast in the period up to the Games. It cannot be used. It needs two things. Firstly, the doubling of the track capacity between Tottenham Hale and Broxbourne, which was planned for completion by 2007 but is now being consigned to the distant future by the SRA. It was one of their top priorities, but now it is out. Secondly, improvements are needed to the Copper Mill junction on the link between Tottenham Hale and...
  • Transport (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2003
    But, at the moment, there is a link and you cannot use it; there is no way in.