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• Reference: 2002/0113-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Following your remarks to me in October last year that you liked the concept of a guided bus (with designated road space and priority at traffic signals but able to operate like a normal bus where Uxbridge Road is too narrow), agreed it might be more viable than a tram and was an idea worth exploring, Transport for London did not examine this option. Why not? .

• Reference: 2002/0114-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

If Transport for London is working on the plans for the route of the West London Transit tram and the borough councils are working on the plans for related traffic management, what will the process be for building ongoing public consultation and input into the development of the scheme as a whole? .

• Reference: 2002/0115-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Will there be any consultation and dialogue with local residents on the West London Transit tram scheme before the formal consultation begins in the spring of next year? .

• Reference: 2002/0116-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What consideration has been given in terms of the plans for the West London Transit tram to Mr. Justice Holland's judgement at Barnsley County Court that tram lines in Sheffield protruding 4mm to 10mm above road level are contravening the 1870 Tramways Act, which requires tram lines to be flush with the road surface, and were responsible for a car accident? .

• Reference: 2002/0117-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

How is the work of Transport for London, in conjunction with the borough councils, progressing in terms of their detailed assessment of traffic impacts of the West London Transit tram scheme, and when will the results be made available to the public? .

• Reference: 2002/0118-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What costing has been made in anticipation of compensation claims under Part 1 of the Land Compensation Act 1973 in relation to the West London Transit tram scheme? .

• Reference: 2002/0119-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

How does the Mayor envisage the West London Transit scheme interfacing with Crossrail? .

• Reference: 2002/0120-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Using his authority both as Mayor of London and Chair of Transport for London, and in view of his stated wish to see full consultation, will the Mayor encourage Ealing Borough Council to hold an open meeting to discuss the effect of the West London Transit tram scheme, following the decision by Labour councillors in June not to hold such a meeting, arguing lamely that because the tram will not be completed until 2009 it is too early to discuss traffic issues? .

• Reference: 2002/0121-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Why are there no plans for improvements in orbital public transport in West London, linking the communities and areas of regeneration within the west of London? .

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Mr Mayor, I welcome your proposals about the way in which you deal with the petitions in future and I will take that to the Standing Orders Committee when we meet, I believe it is later this week. What I presented to you today is a petition of over 11,000 people, and only 2,593 people responded in Ealing to the consultation that TfL conducted. This is proper consultation with people; we've actually gone out and talked to people through the residents' associations. We haven't distributed 300,000 leaflets and, indeed, I don't know where the 300,000 leaflets went to in Ealing...