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• Reference: 2003/2385
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Are you concerned that the Government may provide funding for some of the larger transport infrastructure schemes, such as new roads, whilst keeping spending on more human scale measures at the baseline? Have you considered that the result will be a distorted transport strategy which fails to deliver on cycling, walking, travelsmart, Safe Routes to School schemes and London wide traffic reduction? Would this unfortunate scenario reflect your failure to prioritise these human scale measures as strategic priorities and to sell them as big projects which are as essential as the infrastructure?" .

• Reference: 2003/2386
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Does your planning team encourage the use of car clubs and car sharing in combination with promoting car free developments around transport interchanges? Do you agree that this is a more cost effective approach to traffic reduction? .

• Reference: 2003/2388
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Have you considered the option of downgrading the A3004 Richmond Road/St Margarets Road to a B road, instead of strengthening the Railshead Bridge so that it can take 40 tonne lorries as part of TfL's London wide bridge strengthening policy? Are you aware that this is a small, narrow back road that heavy vehicles don't tend to go down and many people in the local community are opposed to the bridge strengthening, not least because of the disruption to the popular H37 bus? .

• Reference: 2003/2389
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Do you believe that strengthening bridges across London so that intercontinental lorries can use them, is a priority for TfL's restricted budget?" .

• Reference: 2003/2390
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Do you agree that TfL should only give money to future local Car Free Day events, if they support and promote permanent outcomes, such as roadspace allocation, or othe traffic reduction measures? .

• Reference: 2003/2159
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

With TfL's identification of a thousand pinch points on the London road network, will you guarantee that traffic reduction measures will be automatically included as part of the package of solutions? How many of these congestion pinch points are within a half mile radius of the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge? Would the opening of the bridge make these pinch points better or worse? .

• Reference: 2003/2160
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Does the mayor support a code of conduct which allows elected representatives to reveal 'exempt' information where the representative believes this is in the public interest and/or where the information in question relates to an unlawful decision taken in private? .

• Reference: 2003/2162
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Has the condition of pavements on the TLRN got better or worse in the last three years according to the UKPMS surveys? Has TfL paid out any money in legal compensation for injuries to pedestrians during this time? .

• Reference: 2003/2163
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Has the condition of pavements next to borough roads got better, or worse during the last three years? What is the estimated cost of bringing all the borough pavements upto an acceptable level and will the coming year's allocation of TfL funds meet this challenge? .

• Reference: 2003/2201
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

Do all TfL franchises and contracts now contain clauses on improving the design of buses, railway stations, and the underground network for better accessibility for disabled people? .