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  • Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
    This is not in any way to diminish what I think is your spectacular achievement, but it is just one story. My family got tickets for the Paralympics. We were unable to get any tickets for sessions at the Games that we wanted to go to. At the very last minute, at a pretty hefty price, we were able to go to the O2 to see the first Saturday - absolutely amazing men's gymnastics - but it was half empty. Why was that? This was the morning. It might have filled up in the afternoon, but in the morning.
  • Staffing Appointments (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2006
    Are you going to appoint a member of staff or even, indeed, more, to co-ordinate the engagement with young people because they need very special facilitation? I can understand you might not have something yet but I think it is very necessary.
  • 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.