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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Siân Berry AM: Mr Mayor, you mentioned one budget announcement that you have made in that introduction there. I am very concerned to find that you have not sent us any more announcements yet, despite publishing your new draft consolidated budget last night [17 January 2024]. However, I do note in it that you have received an additional £512 million that you can distribute. Looking at the table for Transport for London income on page 78 of that document, it is clear there that your passenger income has dropped compared with the consultation draft budget by £128 million. That is...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Mr Mayor, I welcome the further progress on step-free stations in London that you outlined. However, a recent question to the Department for Transport confirms that level boarding will not be available on Elizabeth Line services at the new Old Oak Common Station, meaning that not all Elizabeth Line stations will provide step-free access. Are you aware of this, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr Mayor and Commissioner. Congratulations on your appointment. I want to focus my questions today on Tube noise and the impact this is having on residents, day and night, in many parts of London, from south Wimbledon to Kennington to King’s Cross. Rail grinding is one of the very few tools that TfL is currently using to try to reduce noise, but internationally there are many innovations in this field. One metro in China has introduced special sleepers that have a wider base then the top, which is shown to...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 08 June 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. My questions are going to be to Sir John, I am afraid. I would love to bring in the rest of you, but I do not have time. You have talked before, with my colleagues, about carbon impacts. I assume that your upcoming review is going to look quite seriously at the contribution of investments across different sectors to Government targets of net zero by 2050. My interest is transport and in London we also have our own target of net zero by 2030. I am very interested in the impact of...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 11 November 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to start with some questions for Lyn on transport and traffic reduction. I want to focus my questions on strategic journeys into the LLDC area and outside of it, not the local journeys, but those longer journeys into and out of the area. We saw a huge number of those for the Olympics itself, but there were also longer-term venues that attract people from longer distances, the shopping centre, the sporting venues, the new cultural venues coming up. Do you have a current assessment of the overall car travel mode share of these strategic journeys...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Siân Berry AM: I want to pick up on the Silvertown Tunnel with the Mayor briefly. Papers from TfL show that the consortium contracted to build and run Silvertown expect to begin actual tunnelling operations in January 2022, so this date basically represents the last moment to stop major works since you cannot actually back these machines back out of the tunnels once you have started to do tunnel works behind them. Before you further back yourself into a corner on this, will you one last time formally reconsider this scheme in light of all we know now about pollution...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Siân Berry AM: I would like to start with the Commissioner. On the TfL deal with the Government, one key part of that is the requirement to increase our fares in London by retail price index (RPI) plus 1%. That comes out at 4.8% this year, based on the figure for RPI that came out in July. Are you comfortable that a nurse in zone 6 is going to face an increase in the cost of travel on TfL services of as much as £20 a month according to this arrangement?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My question is to the Mayor. I would like to ask about the recovery from the pandemic, which should include cycling. On 4 August [2021], Dr Marta Krawiec was killed cycling to work at Holborn Gyratory. There have been eight cyclists killed there since 2008; four at the junction of Southampton Row and Theobalds Road. I have seen your recent reply to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals about this where you stated: “TfL has already delivered funding for short-term interim measures and will support Camden to deliver these as quickly as possible.” Can you today provide...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 01 July 2021

Siân Berry AM: My questions are to the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development. I have two issues to raise with you about the more ground‑up activities under your remit. First of all, the London Housing Panel was set up in 2019 to provide London’s voluntary and community sector organisations with a structured forum to consider housing issues and engage in dialogue with the Mayor, the Assembly and other decision makers. You have said now, just two years later, that it will have its funding removed next March [2022]. I want to ask today whether you would reconsider this...