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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you. My question is for the Commissioner, and I am going to raise the issue of the Piccadilly line signalling upgrade. It is good to hear that you have better relations with Government than previously. We do know that the new trains will increase capacity on the line by 23 percent, but if it were to be given the go-ahead, the signalling would increase capacity by 64 percent. Can I ask you about the state of those negotiations and are you hopeful that we will get that capital funding?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Joanne McCartney AM: Thank you. Mr Mayor, I think you have clearly set out the triple challenges that we are facing as a city, and you have highlighted that the inner London ULEZ has been extremely well delivered, with some drastic improvements made to air quality. However, many parts of outer London are not blessed with the same extensive public transport links that inner London is, and your MTS is about encouraging people out of cars and on to public transport, or more active travel. What will you seek to do in the forthcoming years to make sure that we...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much. My questions are also to the Mayor. You will recall, Mr Mayor, the election campaign of 2016, where from the very start, sitting on platforms with Assembly Member Pidgeon and yourself, I would not stop going on about the need for a London-wide ULEZ and smarter, fairer road charging. It is a huge relief to finally see an outbreak of widespread, political courage on this matter; I really appreciate it. For my question, I wanted to go back to what the Transport Committee asked in relation to promoting safety considerations as part of...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM (Chair): Thank you very much, Chair. I have a tiny bit of time left, and I wanted to reflect back on the kind of communications we are getting. I have been getting a lot of emails. By and large, the people who are against this scheme are being terribly reasonable and just pointing out to me that they have a degree of car dependency, and they are worried about the cost to them of changing their vehicles. We are getting some quite constructive conversations about what they would need in order to do that. Something you said...

• Reference: 2022/1748
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

As part of the Road Task Force work under a previous Mayor, Transport for London (TfL) published a paper with an analysis paper titled ‘How many cars are there in London and who owns them?’, which provided useful data on car ownership in London. With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Would you consider updating this paper, and could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years (2017-2019) with full fieldwork showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough? https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in…

• Reference: 2022/1749
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years with full fieldwork (2017-2019) showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Siân Berry AM: Just briefly, I just want to say at the start that I have already had lots of constituents get in touch about huge concerns they have about cuts to the buses. That consultation is vital, and I will be encouraging many Londoners to respond. But today, for my questions, I am going to focus on fares and the cost of living and put my first question to the Mayor. I am really concerned about the impact of the cost of living crisis on people who depend on using public transport. A Royal College of Nursing survey in...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Joanne McCartney AM: My first question is to the Commissioner and it is regarding TfL’s Capital Plan. I just want to know how the negotiations with Government are going - and I have asked you before - about the Piccadilly line signalling and track, which is getting increasingly old and unreliable, as you told us at our last Transport Committee meeting. Please, could you just give us a brief update?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Joanne McCartney AM: My first question is to the Mayor and it is about suburban rail franchises. Could you provide us with an update on the devolution of suburban rail services to TfL?