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• 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?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Jennette Arnold (Chair): OK. We have four more speakers. I will take Assembly Member Copley. Tom Copley (AM): I wanted to ask you a few questions on Crossrail 2, which it is pleasing to note there is cross-party support for -- Jenny Jones (AM): No. Tom Copley (AM): -- or almost cross-party support for it. First of all, can you update us on discussions you have had with the Government since the election regarding Crossrail 2?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

OK. Good. What sort of engagement have you been having with broader London, other stakeholders like Network Rail and London businesses?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

When you are having your discussions with the Government, there are two options, really, that they have identified for Crossrail 2, one of which is a smaller scale metro option and the other is a more expensive regional option but with probably far more longer-term benefits. Are you pushing the Government for the more expensive version of this, which would deliver greater economic benefits in the long term to London?

• Question by: Tom Copley
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Of course. You have actually pre-empted a question I was going to ask about Euston's ability to cope without Crossrail 2 if HS2 does go ahead. Do you think it is the case, then, that HS2 cannot go ahead into Euston if we do not get Crossrail 2?