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• Reference: 2005/2292
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

I welcome the re-think by TfL on weekend running hours for the Underground because of the high number of workers who use the tube in its first hour of operation on a Sunday. Have you made an initial evaluation of the results of the stakeholder consultation that ended on 12th December? When would you expect the changes to be implemented?

• Reference: 2005/2295
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

My constituents in Chingford and Highams Park are often unable to buy tickets for the Chingford Line in the afternoon because the ticket offices are closed. I have received similar complaints about stations on the North London Line. The fact that these stations are frequently unstaffed is not only inconvenient for passengers, but it leaves them feeling unsafe. Would you agree with me that this is an unacceptable level of service?

• Reference: 2005/2342
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Since TfL London Buses appear to be 'strapped for cash' when communities request new bus routes or modifications to existing routes, will you consider doubling the current funding available to them for trialling new or modified bus routes?

• Reference: 2005/2351
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How do you reconcile the recently introduced discount for monthly and annual congestion charges with your view that TfL is unlikely to offer a discount for the purchase of set number of days' congestion charge which drivers who live in the Congestion Charge zone could then 'use up' at their own convenience? Do we not want to encourage such forethought - or are you happier to collect the fines when honest motorists forget to pay the charge?

• Reference: 2005/2302
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

I was heartened when you responded positively to my question raised on 15th December 2004 (ref:1765/2004) and joined me in pressing for the installation of CCTV at Wood Street Station, following a fatal stabbing. However, although funds of £0.8 million were pledged in TfL's London Rail Business Plan for 2005/6 to go to the rail operator ONE to improve customer security, no Customer Information screens or help points have been introduced at Wood Street Station and a defective light on the platform where the murder took place remains unreplaced. Will you use your influence to ensure that my constituents get...

• Reference: 2005/2311
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Further to my question 2099/2005 about the difficulties cyclists in Waltham Forest have been experiencing since Silverlink Train Operating Company imposed restrictions on them taking their bikes onto the Gospel Oak to Barking Line during peak hours, there have been new developments. Silverlink and TfL have put in a bid to provide 3 extra trains during peak hours, which is excellent news. Now that extra capacity has been created, would you support my call for cyclists to be allowed back on this line?

• Reference: 2005/2324
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Now that up to 5,000 London pubs, bars and clubs are serving alcohol for longer under the Government's new licensing laws and given that 10,000 minicab drivers have left the industry since 2001, is there now a danger that there will be insufficient licensed minicabs in the early hours, and that the demand will be met by illegal touts?

• Reference: 2005/2325
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Do you share the concern of the Watermen and Lightermen's Practitioners that the proposals that were put forward in the consultation carried out by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency earlier this year, lower the standards required for Thames skippers to qualify for a licence?

• Reference: 2005/2328
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please list the key health promotion initiatives undertaken by the GLA in 2005/06 and the costs of each initiative.

• Reference: 2005/2338
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What steps will you now take to enhance and develop the training courses provided both for entrant and serving bus drivers in order to achieve significant and noticeable improvements in the standard of customer service and driving offered to passengers on London's buses? Will you order an increase in "mystery shoppers" employed by TfL to monitor the behaviour of individual bus drivers?