We have completed the Jubilee Line - which was done at the end of last year and that has made a difference to the capacity of the tube. It is still a difficult time but the key problems we are dealing here is the problem of growth. There are a lot of very admirable things about the British transport system with the tube being still very highly regarded by Londoners. I saw a survey recently where the public transport system in London came third or fourth when people were asked to list the best things about London. About 50 or 60 per cent of Londoners travel by public transport into the centre of town whereas if you go out to the provincial cities in Britain it would only be about 15 per cent.
People are very dependent on public transport and some of the systems work pretty well for people.
So I don't accept that we have got a dreadful public transport system. That is a disputed quotation. Sometimes these things are put in quotations as though that is exactly how it was said. John Prescott would argue that what he was talking about is reducing the rate of growth in traffic. No he didn't.