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• Reference: 2007/0174-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

On what grounds could you take a case to court if the PPP Arbiter rules that London Underground owes the Metronet administrator substantial sums for cost overruns?

• Reference: 2007/0181-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What priority is TfL giving to ensure that there is bus access to hospitals, and that bus stops on hospital sites are given priority over car-parks?

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

In terms of trying to influence franchises, I hope that Transport for London will continue to put pressure for the earliest possible resumption of use of the former Eurostar platforms at Waterloo because it seems quite ludicrous when commuters from right across south London are suffering from inadequacy of capacity that we are paying out public money for these to remain mothballed. It is not your fault, despite the Department having good notice of that, so I hope you will use your leverage there. Secondly, when you look at the question of the franchise and the Route Utilisation Strategy, can...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

This is not a personal complaint, Peter!

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Thank you for that. It is intended to be a constructive question as well as asking about constructive engagement. I think I have been asked to do it so that it was not Geoff [Pope] getting at you all the way through the meeting! I am glad to hear that because that was not one of the suggestions that was agreed before, and perhaps that can be taken forward both for you, as Commissioner, and others in TfL. There has been a reference this morning to difficulties about responses. Thank you for putting in place a liaison person. The experience...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The closure of the Waterloo and City line after Metronet had failed to clear the dust I am told: `Still no helpful facts six hours after the incident'. The PPP Arbiter's report, that was published at 7.30 am, I understand that Members and Members' staff were excluded from TfL's press conference at 11.30am and were not able to talk to TfL until 1pm the following day.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I am grateful for that. Perhaps we can follow up some of those specific points on funding outside the meeting? I am happy to do that. I know, for the record, that TfL remain very firmly committed to the Woolwich station; that is very important to my constituents. That was the other point I wanted to raise. If you put aside the question of the Woolwich station, my reading of the Plan does not suggest there is very much for people in South East London. The Thameslink upgrade is the one thing that might be of use. Can I just...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I think you and I would agree about the desirability of Crossrail being funded, but whenever I talk to colleagues who seem to have spent half their lives in the House of Commons on the Bill Committee, they frankly say: `We think we may be wasting our time because there is absolutely no prospect of the money coming from Government'. What concerns me is that we have seen the Treasury, quite wrongly as I think you and I agree, fighting like cats in a sack over the Woolwich station, which is a tiny percentage of the cost, but clearly essential...

• Reference: 2006/0527-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

How can the Assembly arrive at a situation where we engage more constructively with Transport for London?

• Reference: 2006/0418-1
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Anti-social behaviour on buses is a growing problem, made more important considering the central role buses play in TfL's philosophy. Can you detail what measures you are taking to tackle this problem, particularly in the outer London boroughs? What factors would you identify as being central to this problem?