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• Reference: 2007/0175-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What can TfL do in the short term to make it more likely that the inadequate commuter rail services in South London are improved?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Your betting would be that the re-tendering will proceed on that timescale?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

When will that come to a head?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

So, again, the timescales for those discussions?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

You are aware that there is a lot of unhappiness about the potential closure of the shuttle between Victoria and London Bridge as a result of the Thameslink work. Rather than go into that, will you just give us your reassurance that you know that local opposition to that is very high?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Can I just ask you to be a bit more specific on a couple of those points. The East London Line extension phase two, which, as I understand it, is a relatively small sum of money by the standard of these things, for really just a mile or so of extra track; at what point are we going to know about that? I appreciate that, as it were, warm words are being spoken, but just pin that down for me.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

In relation to the re-tendering of the Southern Railways contract, nobody is saying that that will be handed over to TfL in the way that what you are now calling the Overground was, but, as I understand it, again, there are warm words that the Mayor and TfL are being consulted and so forth. Can you, again, be more precise about TfL's involvement in that re-tendering?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Without getting into the merits or otherwise of bendy buses, obviously one of the clear concerns is that the rear portion of the buses is not monitored. Is there a consideration now then that you would concentrate RPIs and suchlike on such routes, where fare evasion is particularly a problem?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

The reason I raised that is that the number 18 bus route that runs through my constituency carries two million passengers a year, or thereabouts. In a recent exercise over 100 people were caught in an hour, without having paid a proper fare. That suggests that anecdotal evidence that people just do not bother paying if they get on the rear portion of those buses is borne out by reality, and if there is a concentration on routes such as that, it must reduce the amount of money that is evaded. Would you not agree that is a useful way...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Have you got any idea when we will actually hear when this will all happen?