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• Reference: 2008/2903
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

You claim to be very keen to get more people cycling in London, but have cut funding for cycle schemes by half. Given that the Chief Executive of the London Cycling Campaign has strongly condemned this funding cut, why have you disregarded the views of cycling organisations in London?

• Reference: 2008/2904
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

In your review of the Transport Strategy, will you re-visit Proposal 4H.2 and consider creating 'Park and Ride' car-parks accessible from the M25 close to rail intersections with the motorway to reduce commuter traffic entering Greater London outside the capital?

• Reference: 2008/2905
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

In the interests of managing cars arriving from beyond the northern GLA boundary, will you ask TfL to investigate a solution to increasing levels of car parking at residential streets around Stanmore Underground station on days when major events take place at Wembley Stadium?

• Reference: 2008/2906
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

In view of the Department for Transport's announcement on 25 November of the £54 million North London Route Improvement Plan, and the doubling of tracks at Camden Road, will you now be able to implement the original plan for 8 trains per hour through this section on London Overground?

• Reference: 2008/2907
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

On what evidence do you base your recent claim that even if an additional 100,000 homes were built in Barking and Dagenham, TfL has sufficient capacity to provide public transport there within its existing arrangements?

• Reference: 2008/2908
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Although TfL state that teams regularly carry out patrols of the 183 bus between Pinner and Golders Green 'to deter anti-social behaviour and reassure the public' this appears to have been unsuccessful in preventing attacks on pupils from the Jewish Free School who are reported to have been threatened with stabbing and kicking. How do TfL propose to guarantee the safety of these pupils on their buses?

• Reference: 2008/2909
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

When will TfL finally deliver on their promise concerning the improvements of Streatham High Road that have been in the planning stage since 2003/4?

• Reference: 2008/2910
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

How many apprenticeships have been created by each of the ODA, CLM, LOCOG, and any Olympic contractor or sub-contractor? Please provide a breakdown of the type of apprenticeships.

• Reference: 2008/2911
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

According to your answer to my question 2439/2008, between 2005 and 2007 visitor numbers to outer London attractions fell by 3.5%, whilst over the same period visitor numbers to inner London attractions rose by 3.5%. How much of the £750,000 funding for Visit London that you recently announced is being targeted towards outer London?

• Reference: 2008/2912
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 December 2008

Ken Livingstone pledged that those who were injured in the bombings of 7th July 2005, and the families of those who were killed, will have front-row seats at the 2012 Games. Are you planning to honour this commitment?