Transport Committee this morning, continuing our look at road humps. There has been much ill-temper was between the ambulance service and boroughs. The ambulance service claim that 500 lives might be being lost because road humps slow ambulances down – but this is somewhat undermined by evidence from boroughs that ambulance personnel have never turned up to the consultations on local road safety schemes.

Urgent email from Chair of Ambulance service in my in-box saying that was not true – and if it was true – they only didn’t turn up because it wasn’t worth while as the boroughs never took a blind bit of notice of their concerns.

Then the boroughs say that the ambulance service object to all humps and that a blanket view prohibits real consultation…

And so it goes.

And the other parties are playing silly buggers on all fronts as we move towards the June elections for the Mayor/GLA and MEPs. They won’t

agree to the polling I want to do to find evidence on what people living near road humps experience – mainly in my view in case I get any publicity out of it. Heaven forbid.

Nothing will be easy in committee until after the elections now.