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• Reference: 2008/0642
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Will you address urgently the inadequate public transport in the Wapping area during the East London Line closure, in view of the following problems. Many residents now rely on the 100 Bus, which is infrequent, late and over-crowded. The 'replacement bus service' does not provide a reasonable interchange with Whitechapel station and the District/Hammersmith and City line, making it of little value. Furthermore, on the weekend of 1st/2nd March the District Line, Circle Line and DLR were all closed, so that the alternative stations of Tower Hill or Shadwell have been rendered useless, effectively leaving a whole community stranded.

• Reference: 2008/0643
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The bay outside 340 Streatham High Road (A23) has no sign to indicate whether it is a parking or loading bay. As it is believed to be a loading bay this is causing penalty charges to be issued incorrectly. Will you ensure the correct sign is erected and arrange for cancellation of parking charge notices issued for this bay?

• Reference: 2008/0644
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The public consultation brochure issued in February for the Heathrow Airtrack rail proposals does not address the impact this will cause on the Staines to Waterloo line. There will be major transport infrastructure and level crossing capacity issues particularly between Richmond and Clapham Junction. Will you press Network Rail to develop and invest in a strategic plan to resolve this?

• Reference: 2008/0645
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Can you please explain why the loading and unloading times along the red route in Holloway Road have been reduced from 20 minutes to three minutes without any consultation with local traders?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

On the low emission zone here again many of these small traders in markets rely on older vehicles and they are being hit by the Low Emission Zone so not everything about the LEZ is rosy.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

No, but with the idea of pedestrianising Oxford Street which we proposed in 2004 you said it could not be done and that included a proposal for a tram. But now you have changed again and now you are saying we are going to do it but it is going to take 14 years. There is a big time differential here isn't there?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The question is why does it take you so long? For example, in 2001 we submitted the Social Cycling Plan to make cycles available at 50 locations in London. That was seven years ago. So there is a big difference. You are seven years behind.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Now on the congestion charge we certainly supported you on the central zone and you also took up our idea of giving people an extra day to pay. What we are saying now is that the western extension does not work and if you go down to Portobello Road - which I did last week - I found that well over half of the traders have lost at least 20% of their business, some half their business, schools are closing and shops have already closed. Will you go down to Portobello Road to see the effect of the western extension...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

But you put a lot more staff in there and you have not done that with the bendy buses.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I think it is very important. Londoners see people every day evading fares on bendy buses at a rate not far short of 10% on your calculations and there seems to be no proper programme to drive it down and no figures available. The first thing you need in order to try to manage a situation is to know how much money you are losing.