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• Reference: 2014/5507
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Due to the major road works at the Aldgate Gyratory it was necessary for TfL to r-route the 100 bus route through Wapping. This diversion, along Lehman Street to Vaughn Way is, in my view and that of many of my constituents who have contacted me on the issue not the best option. Buses have to cross The Highway and at peak times can be waiting 20 minutes to do so. I believe that a diversion along Prescott Street would be more efficient. Can you ask TfL to this review this diversion as a matter of urgency?

• Reference: 2014/5508
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

The Overground is already established as a strong brand, particularly on the Orbital route, North London Line and Barking-Gospel Oak (albeit where it is chronically overcrowded). It struggles a little more on the Euston-Watford Line. One of its strengths has been the investment in safe, well-lit, clean, staffed stations. It has been suggested that the relatively meagre sum, £25m, available for the 24 stations transferring to TfL will probably not be enough to secure the quality of refurbishment that would be needed to meet the 'brand standard' on these new lines. Is this the case? While new rolling stock will...

• Reference: 2014/5509
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

What plans do you have for improvement to and promotion of this relatively lightly used line when it transfers to TfL? Are you aware of aspirations for a second intermediate station, and do you support this idea?

• Reference: 2014/5510
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Do you nominally support this to keep the East End quiet or do you really support it? If the latter, what proposals do you have to take the idea forwards?

• Reference: 2014/5511
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Do you remain opposed to the aspiration for the Home Office for a prison at this site?

• Reference: 2014/4311
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Other than the fact that you can walk across it, by which criterion the purchase of a carpet would qualify, can you spell out why, attractive as it is, the Garden Bridge is properly a transport project, rather than a tourism/regeneration scheme and why, therefore, hard-pressed fare payers should be happy to pay towards it?

• Reference: 2014/4324
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Are tube trains, line by line, and particularly where frequencies have risen, now traveling faster that they were? I have received complaints about the braking and speed on corners or uneven parts of the track.

• Reference: 2014/4325
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

You recently published a report on the consultation responses but then appeared to announce the route while making a speech off the back of this but before it has been properly analysed. Have route options been settled? How? What is the status of the East London spur, which you know that I, Hackney, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and others support?

• Reference: 2014/4327
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2014

Route 5 in B & D is massively overcrowded. I appreciate that there have been service increases but travel patterns in the borough have massively changed. It seems clear to me that a more fundamental service review, with an understanding of travel patterns and consideration of additional or extended services on the route is needed. Can you arrange for TfL in consultation with the Borough to explore this?

• Reference: 2014/3698
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

While emphasis is understandably focused on Thames River crossings, what ideas do you have for a Lower Roding Crossing, to improve local access and reduce dependence on the A13?