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• 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?

• Reference: 2014/3699
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I understand that this project still exists as an aspiration in the Transport Strategy. Will you clarify whether it should remain in the strategy?

• Reference: 2014/3703
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Given your opposition to night flights why will Heathrow benefit from the 24 hour tube?

• Reference: 2014/3704
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

I understand that 200 additional staff will be recruited to operate and maintain the night tube. What pay grades will these be on?

• Reference: 2014/3706
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

Is the garden bridge a transport project? How has it been assessed against the transport strategy and the priorities identified within it?

• Reference: 2014/3707
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2014

While it may be valid to use tolls to help underpin the funding of certain projects would you agree with me that it is reasonable that this should be considered as a part of a cocktail of funding options? What steps are you taking to bid for or use other capital resources for Thames River Crossings?