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• Reference: 2014/3015
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

You have ordered TfL to carry out a feasibility study into an underground ring road. Mole Solutions Ltd has carried out a number of DEFRA/DFT and TSB sponsored studies to explore the feasibility of introducing freight pipelines beneath our cities. Will you ensure that relevant TfL officers meet with representatives of this company to learn more about the role which robotic freight could play in reducing freight traffic on London’s streets?

• Reference: 2014/3016
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

In May you stated that TfL were conducting a feasibility study into an underground ring road. When and how will the results of the study be made available?

• Reference: 2014/3017
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

What are the 75 locations where TfL has installed nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes across east London?

• Reference: 2014/3018
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Will you commit to publishing the results of the nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes monitoring on the London Datastore when available?

• Reference: 2014/3019
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

How do you plan to use the results of the nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes monitoring in east London?

• Reference: 2014/3021
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

It is over ten years since the Institute of Occupational Medicine did their study on the health impacts of tube dust, which concluded that dust levels were ‘highly unlikely’ to cause serious damage to staff and public. Since then, there have been considerable advances in our understanding of the health impacts of particulate matter. For example, we now know that brake and tyre wear plays a major part in urban road pollution, which may be comparable to tube dust, and the WHO now states that “there is no evidence of a safe level of exposure or a threshold below which...

• Reference: 2014/3022
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

The Tube’s Tunnel Cleaning Train, originally planned to begin operation in 2012, has been delayed again by the need to remove asbestos in the tube system. This asbestos removal work should only take up to 18 months, but TfL now don't expect to start cleaning tunnels until at least 2017. There is no urgency about this work to clean dust from the tubes that is harmful to human health. Will you push TfL to start the cleaning work within 18 months with no further delays?

• Reference: 2014/3023
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Are you concerned that TfL’s current push to maximise revenue from its commercial assets could see hundreds of small, family-run businesses driven out of tube station kiosks and railway arches as big-name retailers are moved in when leases expire and platform plots are put up for sale at high prices?

• Reference: 2014/3024
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

In formulating this policy, has TfL set either a network-wide target or local targets for the proportion of businesses occupying its commercial spaces which will remain independent, family-run outfits as opposed to big name retailers?

• Reference: 2014/3025
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Promoting a range of different types of businesses across TfL’s commercial spaces will improve the resilience of its own business model. Please give further details on the mix of retailers which TfL hopes to see occupy its commercial spaces.