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• Reference: 2005/2345
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Do you agree with the East London Line Group that the current phase of the East London line is the key to putting the Olympics within the reach of people in south-east London but that "without Phase 2"-the line to Clapham junction- "London's potential to deliver truly excellent transport for the Games is impaired"? What steps are you currently taking to ensure that Phase 2 of the extensions secure funding?

• Reference: 2005/2346
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of London Underground, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.

• Reference: 2005/2347
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of TfL London Buses, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.

• Reference: 2005/2348
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of TfL Docklands Light Railway, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.

• Reference: 2005/2350
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Are you aware that under the terms of Part 7 of Schedule 2 to the Town & Country (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (GPDO), Network Rail, as a statutory undertaker, has the right to carry out certain development on its operational land in connection with the movement of traffic by rail without having to make a planning application? Are you further aware that the large Industrial development - a train washing facility - erected by Southern Rail on the sidings at Streatham Hill without planning permission abuts many residential properties in Sternhold Avenue causing a major environmental impact on the...

• Reference: 2005/2352
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How do you defend a situation where your Public Carriage Office (quite rightly) requires black cab operators to comply with new emission regulations, but imposes its cab specifications in such a way that operators can only buy vehicles manufactured by LTI? Is it acceptable that LTI should be increasing their profits on the back of the monopoly you have fostered, and when are other manufacturers going to be allowed to compete?

• Reference: 2005/2353
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please set out the programme for introducing step-free access at London Underground stations over the next fifteen years, giving a target date for the completion of this work for each station included in the programme.

• Reference: 2005/2354
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How are walking, cycling and public transport use being encouraged and use of the motor car discouraged by improving junction capacity for motorists at Stockwell at the expense of cyclists and pedestrians?

• Reference: 2005/2355
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How do you think that leaving pavements on TLRN roads icy and dangerous promotes the professed aims of your Transport Strategy to promote sustainable alternative forms of transport such as walking?

• Reference: 2005/2356
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How do you justify comments from TfL officers contained in a letter from the GLA dated 5 October 2005 to officers at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames claiming that the Linden Homes site in Sandy Lane is "within acceptable walking distance" of the 281 and 285 bus stops in Kingston Road? With the loss of the 465 bus under London Buses' current proposals, there would be no service on a Sunday and Kingston Road bus stops are more than 700 metres away, over a footbridge. The development contains a residential home for the elderly and the visitors may...