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• Reference: 2005/0108
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Will you consider introducing a system of payment for the Congestion Charge whereby customers can buy up to 10 undated entries to the Central Zone at a time on a `carnet' basis, to use up at their discretion, saving them both time and effort ?

• Reference: 2005/0109
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Why has it taken so long for Transport for London to resolve its differences with Tramtrack (the Croydon Tramlink operating company) and how do you expect to retain the confidence of major financial lenders unless TfL is trusted to uphold the spirit as well as the letter of PFI contracts ?

• Reference: 2005/0011-1
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

What decision making powers has the Mayor devolved as a matter of practice to those working in the Mayor's Office?

• Reference: 2004/1933
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Do you believe that the additional powers you are to be given over commuter rail in Greater London in the forthcoming Railways Bill will enable you to give Londoners any serious improvement in the standard of their travelling experience during your second term ?

• Reference: 2004/1938
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How do you reconcile planning 10,000 car parking spaces at Stratford City and similar provision for Silvertown Quays with the aim of making Thames Gateway regeneration sustainable ? Is this not clear evidence that Labour's vision for the Thames Gateway has not moved on from Thamesmead ?

• Reference: 2004/1865
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Given your acknowledgement, as reported in the Muswell Hill Journal on 3 June 2004, that the Alexandra Palace is a "regional resource" and a "huge financial burden" for the borough of Haringey and that suggested extra funding could be made available to it by the Greater London Authority, could you detail what steps you have taken since June to offer your assistance to Haringey and set out what immediate and/or future plans you have to do so.

• Reference: 2004/1873
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What action are you taking in response to the findings by the Audit Commission of continuing low levels of public satisfaction in the Metropolitan Police Service in some areas and the low levels of confidence and trust which ethnic minority communities still have in the police? What progress do you expect to see in these two areas in the coming year?

• Reference: 2004/1901
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

The K1 hopper service is being turned into a bus stop service and elderly residents are complaining that they will not be able to walk to the bus stops. In Kingston there is a shopping mobility programme and so once at Kingston they can access shops. Transport for London are gradually turning hail and ride services into bus stop services to meet the DDA regulations. This is to facilitate access to wheelchair users. The hail and ride services often serve town shopping centres where shop mobility programmes are present. While accepting the need for dedicated wheel chair access points, how...

• Reference: 2004/1902
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Does the mayor support the concept of bus stops on hail and ride routes - while maintaining the principle of hail and ride between fixed dedicated stops?

• Reference: 2004/1911
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How many track fires have there been on the London Underground, broken down by line, in the last 12 months? Will you also please set out for each of those fires the causes that were attributed, and whether the fire brigade was obliged to attend.