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• Reference: 2009/3325
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Will you hold discussions with Southern Railways and Network Rail to ensure that Southern rail services to Brockley, Honor Oak and Forest Hill are not cut during the reconstruction of London Bridge Station ?

• Reference: 2009/3326
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Please publish a table showing the total mileage of trips made by Dial-a-Ride in each of the 32 London boroughs, broken down for each of the four quarters of the financial year 2008/2009 and for each of the first two quarters of the financial year 2009/2010.

• Reference: 2009/3327
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

All complaints to Dial-A-Ride should now receive an acknowledgement slip on request. At a recent Dial-A-Ride meeting in Havering, users complained that this was not happening consistently. What will you do to improve this situation ?

• Reference: 2009/3328
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Please publish a table showing for each day of October 2009 (a) the average waiting time for calls to the Dial-a-Ride centralised scheduling and booking system and also the waiting times during peak periods, (b) the number of calls which were abandoned.

• Reference: 2009/3329
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

TfL have recently written to all members of Dial-A-Ride highlighting supposed improvements to the service. The letter provides a feedback telephone number (020 7466 0251) which is at present unobtainable. What steps will you take to ensure that Dial-A-Ride users are given a telephone number that actually works ?

• Reference: 2009/3330
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

In the light of the tragic deaths of ten cyclists on London's roads this year, with eight involving heavy goods vehicles, how do you justify Transport for London's decision to shut down the Metropolitan Police Commercial Vehicle Education Unit (CVEU) despite the fact that 70% of lorries checked by CVEU since 2005 were found to be defective in some way ?

• Reference: 2009/3331
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Eurostar-style trains were enabled to run directly from Heathrow to Amsterdam, Geneva and Frankfurt. Would you support moves to reduce shorthaul flights to continental destinations by improving and extending high-speed rail routes ?

• Reference: 2009/3332
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Have you discussed with High Speed Two Ltd and Network Rail how the four-tracking work being undertaken at Camden Road Station could benefit the HS2 project, and what High Speed Two Ltd might do to fund a short extension of that work west to the junction at Primrose Hill ?

• Reference: 2009/3333
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

Can you confirm that the four-tracking work being undertaken at Camden Road Station, and the 8 spare paths per hour that exist on the West Coast Main Line to Wembley would enable fast trains to connect Stratford with the Olympic venues at Wembley during the 2012 Games ?

• Reference: 2009/3334
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 18 November 2009

If the Ward Panel of a Safer Neighbourhood Team decides tackling speeding traffic is the priority and asks the SNT to use speed guns to check the speed of motorists in a 20mph Zone, can drivers be prosecuted if they are over the 20mph limit ?