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• Reference: 2009/3795
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Why is TfL reportedly offering only 25% of the true costs of moving their businesses to the owners of properties in Dean Street, Soho, who have had to move out of their premises so Crossrail can be built?

• Reference: 2009/3796
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Why are TfL responding to protests by owners of Soho businesses against inadequate compensation by saying they are 'too busy to provide detailed responses'? Is not TfL's handling of the compensation issue likely to bring the whole Crossrail project into disrepute?

• Reference: 2009/3797
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

What progress have you made in your correspondence with the Minister of State at the Department for Transport in securing the funding necessary to build the London Overground station at Surrey Canal Road ?

• Reference: 2009/3798
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Why were all train operating company station staff not fully briefed about acceptance of Oyster Pay-As-You-Go on rail ahead of the launch on 23 November, and seem to have had to rely on what they were able to read in the press about this initiative?

• Reference: 2009/3799
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Could you ask TfL to look into whether the area around Mildmay Road in Dalston Kingsland is adequately served by existing bus services and whether it is possible to connect Dalston Kingsland rail station with Newington Green by bus ?

• Reference: 2009/3800
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Planning permission to TfL or their agent was granted in November 2008 for a toilet cabin opposite 371 Friern Road, SE22 in Southwark, for the use of bus drivers. After a year no construction has started, or works completed, and this is causing anti-social problems in the locality. Can you advise why the construction of this cabin has been delayed?

• Reference: 2009/3801
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

What is your reaction to plans by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) to increase the cost of transporting Freedom Pass holders by 25 per cent, with the effect that the amount London's boroughs pay to the train operating companies will jump from £12 million in 2009/10 to at least £15 million in 2010/11?

• Reference: 2009/3802
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Is it not time that the Freedom Pass, like all the other fare concessions that qre offered through TfL, was funded and managed by the Mayor of London and TfL, and not by London Councils ?

• Reference: 2009/3803
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

In your Mayor's Decision MD465 you approved £367,000 for 2009/10 for Rape Crisis Centres within the Community Safety Programme budget. Does this funding include all the running costs of the Centres ?

• Reference: 2009/3804
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

In your Mayor's Decision MD465 you approved £25,000 for the scoping and establishment of a pan-London Rape Crisis Centre helpline. Will you be seeking external funding for this helpline, or funding it yourself ?