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• Reference: 2009/3792
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

How much money has been spent on consultants' fees and other sourcing of advice in connection with the proposal to build a new airport in the Thames estuary ?

• Reference: 2009/3793
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Can you can confirm that TfL's own research shows that reducing the green man phase in favour of an increased green light phase for vehicular traffic increases the risk for pedestrians by prompting far greater tendencies to cross against the red man: specifically that pedestrian 'non-compliance' with the red man increases by 14% while vehicular throughput increases by only 6.5%?

• Reference: 2009/3794
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 December 2009

Given that there are no lifts at Leytonstone High Road or Leyton Midland Road stations on London Overground, TfL Customer Relations tell us that their current policy, where mobility impaired passengers need to travel either to or from an inaccessible station, is to provide a taxi to the nearest accessible transport link, and that the cost of the taxi will be covered by London Overground. How many taxi journeys of this kind have been made so far each month during 2009, and at what total cost to TfL ?

• 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?