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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I do not mind which person would like to answer. It might be we start with Lyn and move over to Lord Hendy. The transformation of the Olympic Park and Stratford is something to celebrate. It is fantastic. I want to pick up about transport today, surprise, surprise. Stratford Station is estimated to be the seventh busiest Network Rail station in the UK and one of the busiest stations on the TfL network. It is straining to cope with demand, a fragmented layout and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in the middle causing a huge bottleneck...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much indeed. I am going to ask my first question to the Deputy Mayor, given your contribution at the start, because section 1.4 of the original bid document promised these four great legacies: sport, community, environment and economy. I really want to try to focus on sport today. Let us look at the Olympic Stadium. The legacy for sport really centred around the Stadium itself. The bid document, if you look at it, promised conversion to a 25,000-seat multipurpose venue with athletics at its core. It will become a house of sport with...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I would like to ask Sir Peter. As Chair of the LLDC, you will take direction from the Mayor that you may not always agree with. You were the Commissioner of TfL at the time of the Garden Bridge fiasco. What lessons have you learned from the mistakes made at that time?

• Reference: 2012/0072-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

How concerned are you with the recent performance of London Underground?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I think that is reassuring and I am sure the IOC and Londoners will be reassured by that. In the event that there is a failure, say, on the Jubilee line during the games and you have people at the Olympic Park wanting to get down to the north Greenwich arena, will you allow spectators to travel for free on the cable car as a quick means to travel?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

That was out of LU's control. Have you assured yourself that measures are in place? We have heard about the blue-light team and all the things you told us last week, and Peter and others have told us. How have you assured yourself and the IOC that things are in place and that people will be able to get around?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

I think the last thing any of us want is images being beamed around the world of spectators having to be walked down the tracks and tunnels due to a broken-down train or some signalling problem or whatever, and particularly we have now heard that Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, may even occasionally be travelling by the Tube thanks to the pressures from you and others.

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thanks to the pressure by yourself and others no doubt. Are you concerned that such failures on the Underground at Games time could lead to worldwide embarrassment and what are you personally doing to assure yourself that the system is going to be working as well as it can throughout the Games?