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• Reference: 2013/4656
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Whilst there is a logic to spending more money on each of London's most dangerous junctions in order to make them safer, why are you not expanding the total cycling budget, instead of cutting back by three quarters the total number of junctions which will get the full range of improvements they need prior to 2016?

• Reference: 2013/4657
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

You have consistently underspent the safer cycle budget for every year you have been Mayor. Will you learn your lesson and now start to over program in order to ensure that you do actually deliver the limited improvement to cycling that you are now promising?

• Reference: 2013/4639
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

The Earl's Court Area Action Group which is supported by 30 leaders in the field of art, music and science and more including designers Ozwald Boeteng and Bella Freud, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop boys condemned the Earl's Court Exhibition Centres demolition proposals. Their objections were published in an Evening Standard letter on the 28th November, and included the following: it's an act of cultural vandalism; the venues attract millions of international visitors and crowd-drawing events on the world map - maintaining Olympia open is not a replacement for them; the substantial loss of income to local traders and...

• Reference: 2013/4667
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

What is your budget for completing the seven additional Cycle Superhighways which you have promised to install between now and 2016?

• Reference: 2013/4668
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Could you give details as to why a 'New Bus for London' has been operating as a free shuttle service in Ipswich, Suffolk? Please also provide details as to whether any costs have been or will be incurred by TfL in the running of this bus for its operation both within Ipswich and in transit to and from London to East Anglia.

• Reference: 2013/4669
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

According to the TfL business plan, the annual 'Capital Bus Expenditure' drops from £71m in 2015/16 to £25m or under for the next three years. Can you outline what this capital expenditure will cover in the years 2016/17 to 2018/19?

• Reference: 2013/4670
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

You have committed to working with London Citizens and others to define a London Affordable Rent and to publish the figure annually. In your answer to question 2013/3318, you told me that your approach to affordability would be set out in your new draft housing strategy. Yet there is no mention in your strategy of such a definition being developed with London Citizens. How are you planning to honour this commitment?

• Reference: 2013/4671
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

How many (a) 'disposals' and (b) 'conversions' do you expect housing associations to make between 2015-18 in order to deliver the 15,000 homes a year mentioned in your draft housing strategy?

• Reference: 2013/4649
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

A recent complaint from a constituent has revealed that, following resurfacing work by TfL, cycle markings can be delayed for days and maybe weeks, rather than hours for lane markings for vehicle drivers. As a matter of policy can you ensure TfL agree to the principle that reinstatement of road safety line markings that directly impact safety should not be unduly delayed following road repairs?

• Reference: 2013/4650
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

The recent publication of the 'Clear Road Ahead' report by Richard Tracey AM drew attention to statistics showing that during your tenure as Mayor there has been an average of one collision involving a bus per day that results in a person being killed or seriously-injured in London. A pedestrian campaigner has contacted me to report that TfL is failing to respond to his FOI requests concerning deaths and serious injuries involving its buses within the time limit indicated by the FOI Act. As Chair of the TfL board, please provide an explanation as to why these requests are not...