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• Reference: 2006/0488-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Does it make sense to install air conditioning on underground trains given the energy use and concerns about global warming?

• Reference: 2006/0489-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Are bendy-buses a success?

• Reference: 2006/0490-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Are there unnecessary bus lanes in parts of London?

• Reference: 2006/2231
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

How do you feel the anomaly, whereby the Port of London Authority is exempt from Freedom of Information requests and appears to have no independent complaints procedure, should be addressed? Is this an issue on which we should be lobbying for change?

• Reference: 2006/2234
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Tenants and businesses on West India Quay are expressing concern that following the Delta Junction improvements they will lose their DLR service to Bank. What steps can be taken to reassure them and what alternatives are being explored? As the North Quay area is developed with more offices the numbers of people who would have used this station would increase. Has there been adequate modelling of the alternative routes?

• Reference: 2006/2232
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Do you agree that Remploy fulfill a useful role in providing employment for disabled people in London? Would you also agree that while periodic review is inevitable and 'mainstreaming' of employment is desirable the track record on this is very mixed and there is a continuing need for the Remploy factories in London? Will you ensure that your office monitors the review and will you support me in strenuously supporting this vital resource for disabled people?

• Reference: 2006/2233
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Do you feel that within the GLA family we are doing enough to promote employment of disabled people, particularly those with more severe disabilities, conditions such as epilepsy, which many employers will not feel able to deal with in their workforce, and adults with a learning disability?

• Reference: 2006/2235
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

What role do mobility buses play now that more London buses are accessible and do you accept that they do fulfill a particular role for small numbers of people with particular types and degrees of mobility impairment?

• Reference: 2006/2236
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

What service standards operate for Dial-a-Ride and how can these, including the numbers of declined requests, be addressed where falling short of customer expectations?

• Reference: 2006/2237
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Do you agree with me that the provision of a high-level viewing platform, with wide but secure visitor access, at a tall building in London, such as at Canary Wharf, could, like the Empire State Building or Eiffel Tower become a highly popular visitor attraction. Should a developer be encouraged to build such an attraction in one of London's tall buildings?