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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I want to focus on the North London Line, which is absolutely important for London but also crucial for the constituency I represent, Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. If we just look at the Hackney and Islington part of it, you can see why we welcome the ambitions and the funding that are being proposed for the North London Line. Can you repeat what you were saying about your meeting with the Department for Transport? Are you saying that you were discussing a plan B, for instance, if the Railway Bill does not make it? What sort of timescales were...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

With the North London Line, if you were just able to extend the platform that would give us longer trains and you would then be able to deal with the overcrowding.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Continuing with the theme that they will do the right thing, which we hope they will, what benefits will my constituents, who rely on the North London Line, be able to see once TfL takes responsibility for this part of the network? Can you re-affirm your commitment to the 'turn-up-and-go' way of operating that I read was one of your ambitions?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Therefore you are actually putting it up to help fill a deficit. ... To balance the books. As the penalty revenue falls you are predicting a deficit.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

You told us earlier about the constraints of funding and how much the infrastructure improvement is dependent on that, which I think we all understand. However, in terms of raising future revenues, do you agree with the quote in the Evening Standard, a couple of days ago I think, from your board colleague, Professor Stephen Glaister that, `In future years Congesting Charging has to be a key revenue generator'?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Staying on the subject of revenue from Congestion Charging - is not the problem for TfL that they foresee a huge drop in the amount of revenue from Congestion Charging as people learn to manoeuvre themselves through the rather Byzantine payment system, whereby you will be getting less penalty money? Is not the whole point of jacking it up from £5 to £8 actually to make a start on filling the deficit that TfL has actually prophesied itself?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What about the public inquiry the ALG has called for, a cross-party call to you?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Can I ask about one other aspect? Recently, there was a call from the Association of London Government (ALG), a cross-party call, for a pause in this whole rolling out of the Congestion Charge westwards, and to allow for a public inquiry to take place, not least because we understand, and you yourself went on record to say that some very interesting trial work was being done on tag and beacon. Would it not be better to pause before you put all these cameras in and have a public inquiry to look at where we are on this whole issue?

• Reference: 2005/0040-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How will you ensure that the needs of workers are fully taken into account as part of the consultation on starting and finishing the tube later at weekends? ... What alternative transport option will be available to the current 55,000 people who use the Tube during the first hour of operation over the weekend? There are other questions related to that, so perhaps you can give me a quick answer and then a long answer by mail.

• Reference: 2005/0036-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What efforts have you made to co-ordinate and streamline communications activity within the TfL Group?