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• Reference: 2011/0135-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

How much cash subsidy per passenger KM did the average bus passenger, tube passenger, and cycle hire passenger each receive last year from TfL?

• Reference: 2011/0136-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

Following the recent media reports that visually impaired people have been advised to avoid Victoria underground station at even peak times, please explain why this is the case, and why sufficient staff are apparently not available at this key interchange station during busy times to assist visually impaired passengers. Do you agree that this is an entirely unacceptable state of affairs? Has similar advice been given to mobility impaired passengers or people with other kinds of disability?

• Reference: 2011/0137-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

What was your rationale for authorizing a £300m deferral of tube upgrade work?

• Reference: 2011/0138-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

If TfL underspending 2008-2011 had been applied to the bus service, what would your estimate be of the annual extra passenger KM that could have been generated?

• Reference: 2011/0139-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

Now that planning permission has been agreed for the Surrey Canal development, will TfL reconsider their contribution to building a new station at Surrey Canal Road?

• Reference: 2011/0140-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

Paragraph 14 of the Secretary of State for Transport's letter to you following last year's Comprehensive Spending Review clearly states 'Following TfL's request for a service decrement, the department will make a grant of £24million available to TfL in 2012/13 to reflect the savings over 10 years associated with the Department withdrawing sponsorship of the South London Line/Victoria to Bellingham services from 2012.' The current Minister of State Theresa Villiers MP also made clear recently during the BBC Politics Show that the withdrawal of the South London Line mitigation service was at the request of the Mayor as Chair of...

• Reference: 2011/0141-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

Following a survey I undertook earlier in the year, I sent a report to TfL making various recommendations for ways to assist the communities affected by the withdrawal of the SLL in particular users of Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road stations who stand to lose their direct service to Victoria. Please update me on how TfL have responded to each recommendation so far.

• Reference: 2011/0142-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

How many projects do TfL have at the moment regarding the conversion of Hail and Ride bus services into fixed stop services? Which routes are affected? How many conversions of this kind have TfL postponed or abandoned since 2008, which routes to they involve and why have they been postponed or abandoned?

• Reference: 2011/0143-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

I warmly welcome the recent introduction of longer dual door vehicles on this route, but am concerned to hear that reliability of the service still has not improved as hoped. Please can the reasons for this be investigated?

• Reference: 2011/0144-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 09 November 2011

Further to written answer 2996/2011 I was very concerned to see that ten of the most problematic accident black spots for cyclists were in my constituency. I am aware that some measures have now taken place with all of these - please could you let me have an update on this for each location?