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• Reference: 2024/0926
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0523: Can you provide updated figures on expected increases or decreases of traffic CO2 emissions in the years following opening, to replace the figures in TfL's 'carbon and energy statement'?

• Reference: 2024/0928
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0526: You say TfL's sensitivity testing covered different values of time - but the 2018 MTS did not change the value of time - what it did do - at least if the targets within it for motor traffic reduction were hit - should have been to make very significant changes to forecasts for traffic and congestion - which in turn changes the amount of time potentially saved by any scheme that is claimed to reduce congestion. i) Why did you not re-evaluate the scheme according to these revised traffic forecasts prior to signing the contract? ii)...

• Reference: 2024/0929
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question: 2024/0523 - You claim that the Silvertown Tunnel will enable you to 'greatly increase public transport usage in east and southeast london'. Why then have you reduced the promised bus service through Silvertown by more than half from 31.5 buses/hour to 14 buses/hour - just 2 new bus routes? Given the alignment of the tunnel, which does not follow existing desire lines, and the failure to engineer bus priority on approach roads to make journey times more competitive with other modes, where do you expect future demand to come from?

• Reference: 2024/0930
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0527: You state: 'The Silvertown Tunnel scheme, including the user charge and new zero emission bus network, has been designed to ensure that there is no material impact in the number of vehicle trips across the river.' Can you please confirm that this is in fact incorrect, and that opening the Silvertown Tunnel, whether or not it is tolled, and whether or not zero emission buses are used, always substantially increases cross-river traffic, and local pollution, and carbon emissions, compared to an otherwise identical situation in which Silvertown is not opened to general traffic?

• Reference: 2024/0931
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

For each month from the start of 2023, for the Finchley Road, how many speeding tickets have been issued and what is the total value of fines?

• Reference: 2024/0933
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In response to question 2023/0862, you said that ‘under my instruction, Transport for London (TfL) provided free advertising space for a COVID-19 campaign’, suggesting you have the ability to direct what is advertised on the TfL network in your role as Mayor and Chair of TfL. In response to question 2022/4160, however, you suggested that TfL’s advertising is operationally independent. Which is it?

• Reference: 2024/0934
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In response to question 2023/0862, you said that ‘under my instruction, Transport for London (TfL) provided free advertising space for a COVID-19 campaign’, suggesting you have the ability to direct what is advertised on the TfL network in your role as Mayor and Chair of TfL. Will you now commit to using these powers to provide free advertising for campaigns around HIV awareness?

• Reference: 2024/0950
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In your response to question 2024/0759, you state "serious incidents involving buses continue to be investigated separately as part of the Notification and Investigation of Major Incidents (NIMI) process", yet, in your response to (a) questions 2019/17344 and 2019/17333 you make it clear that NIMIs are prepared by the same bus operator that conducted the initial investigation and, (b) to question 2022/5364, TfL's contracted bus operators submit NIMIs for less than 0.5% of the total number of bus crashes recorded by TfL. Bus drivers, in confidence, have provided me with copies of NIMIs and, in my view, these documents essentially...

• Reference: 2024/0952
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Over the years, in your many responses to Mayoral Questions (e.g. questions 2023/0911, 2023/4725 and 2020/2699) you have highlighted the importance of formal tripartite meetings between TfL, the bus operators and Unite the Union as an "established forum...to discuss, inform and consult on matters affecting the common operation of London’s bus network—where—"the Bus Safety Programme is regularly on the agenda" and which provides "an opportunity for unions to raise and discuss safety issues". However, from your recent response to question 2024/0760, can I correctly assume that since 2023 'formal discussions' between bus operators, Unite the Union and TfL are now...

• Reference: 2024/0953
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In your response to question 2024/0188, you stated that TfL Buses Incident Response Unit "proactively carry out risk assessment of bus routes, road works and roads used for temporary diversions to ensure continuous safety." However, when, in question 2024/0761, I asked for 'recent examples of 'proactive' risk assessments carried out by the Unit for each of the categories you identified', you responded by providing an example of a 13 February 2024 risk assessment at Temple Fortune Lane in Barnet between Hoop Lane and Finchley Road conducted by a Network Traffic Controller (NTC). Are a "Network Traffic Controller" and "TfL Buses...