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• Reference: 2007/0210
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

How effective have policing teams and new CCTV been in reducing pickpocket offences on bendy buses?

• Reference: 2007/0211-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

East London bus passengers have reported great improvements since the 205 route was extended to Mile End, which has taken pressure off the congested 25 route. Will TfL revisit the proposal to extend the 205 all the way to Stratford? Although the proposed 425 between Clapton and Stratford is via Mile End, this will create a disjointed journey for passengers wishing to travel the length of Mile End Road/Bow Road.

• Reference: 2007/0212-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Further to TfL's decision not to supply a bus service linking residents to their new surgery on Church Elm Lane, what other bus services could be considered prior to the review in 2009? The residents on the eastern side of this residential area are extremely isolated, being nearly a kilometre from the nearest regular service, and only has a 900 series bus serving their streets once a week.

• Reference: 2007/0234-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Further to the petition I presented to the Mayor and TfL earlier this year, and the surveys carried out by TfL in early September, will we be getting more buses during peak times on the busy route 5 in Barking and Dagenham?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I have an obsession with the Thames Gateway Bridge. I appreciate it is a very contentious issue, although I would remind you and the meeting that it is the one road crossing in a package which includes six, I think, rail crossings. So that's six rail crossings, one road crossing. My constituents and those Members representing south London are continuing to be plagued by the problems and the congestion at the Blackwall Tunnel. I have two questions: first is, is it still the case that the funding is secured for the Thames Gateway Bridge, because obviously with the slippage of...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Would you accept, notwithstanding that the majority in this Assembly, possibly with the exception of Brian Coleman, do not support the construction of urban motorway networks, the fact is that east London is continually held to ransom by the lack of road capacity across the Thames there and, providing we get it right, it is a crossing that can be justified. The problems at Blackwall continue to be so severe, in terms of congestion, that any accidents in the tunnel gridlock east London. This is something that needs to be given the highest possible priority. Is there not a contradiction...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I think most Londoners will understand that there is a problem and that you need to get on top of it. A little more information, a little more quickly would be helpful. I have one particular instance though, which is Aldgate East station where the eastern ticket office and access has been closed, I think now for a couple of months longer than it was meant to be, under the refurbishment. If you do not have the answer here today, can you write to me perhaps, explaining when that is going to re-open? It increases the time for people trying...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The second part of the question is about local arrangements. There are two very quick parts to this and I would welcome very succinct answers. First, has the inexorable expansion of bus services in London reached an end and are there pressures to make it rather more difficult? Second, if there are budget pressures within TfL, are there many local schemes that will benefit; for example, safety schemes travel to school schemes, pedestrian fear of traffic schemes, pedestrianisation schemes, cycling schemes. Are they going to get squashed out of the sandwich as a result of this? What guarantee can you...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So those are subject to separate bidding and funding exercises?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

What would you say then is the greatest risk to Londoners in terms of the current Spending Review by Government? You seem to be saying everything is guaranteed, we have no concerns and we hardly need make a bid for that because it has all been nailed down previously. That seems a bit too good to be true.