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• Reference: 2024/0924
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0522: Can you provide these estimates of overall reductions in PM and NOX pollution from opening Silvertown and tolling Blackwall in tonnes/year, not in concentrations?

• Reference: 2024/0926
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0523: Can you provide updated figures on expected increases or decreases of traffic CO2 emissions in the years following opening, to replace the figures in TfL's 'carbon and energy statement'?

• Reference: 2024/0928
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0526: You say TfL's sensitivity testing covered different values of time - but the 2018 MTS did not change the value of time - what it did do - at least if the targets within it for motor traffic reduction were hit - should have been to make very significant changes to forecasts for traffic and congestion - which in turn changes the amount of time potentially saved by any scheme that is claimed to reduce congestion. i) Why did you not re-evaluate the scheme according to these revised traffic forecasts prior to signing the contract? ii)...

• Reference: 2024/0929
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question: 2024/0523 - You claim that the Silvertown Tunnel will enable you to 'greatly increase public transport usage in east and southeast london'. Why then have you reduced the promised bus service through Silvertown by more than half from 31.5 buses/hour to 14 buses/hour - just 2 new bus routes? Given the alignment of the tunnel, which does not follow existing desire lines, and the failure to engineer bus priority on approach roads to make journey times more competitive with other modes, where do you expect future demand to come from?

• Reference: 2024/0930
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Re my question 2024/0527: You state: 'The Silvertown Tunnel scheme, including the user charge and new zero emission bus network, has been designed to ensure that there is no material impact in the number of vehicle trips across the river.' Can you please confirm that this is in fact incorrect, and that opening the Silvertown Tunnel, whether or not it is tolled, and whether or not zero emission buses are used, always substantially increases cross-river traffic, and local pollution, and carbon emissions, compared to an otherwise identical situation in which Silvertown is not opened to general traffic?

• Reference: 2024/0893
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Following a meeting of the Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee on 27 February 2024, the Fire Commissioner said that he had met with the Commissioner of TfL to discuss messaging around E-scooters and E-bikes. Could you lay out when this meeting took place and what was specifically discussed?

• Reference: 2024/0900
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

What measures are you taking to encourage potential landlords to open smaller pubs across the capital, as the trend towards larger pubs over the last 20 years looks set to continue?

• Reference: 2024/0901
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The decrease in pub numbers over the last twenty years is most pronounced in outer London boroughs. What specific funding and support is available for potential and current landlords to set up and run pubs in outer London?

• Reference: 2024/0902
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Local pubs traditionally offered a space for in-person social interaction and community. With a recent report from the UN identifying loneliness as a public health priority, how are you factoring in the loss of smaller pubs, as well as other centres of community, into efforts to fight mental health inequality?

• Reference: 2024/0908
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Does the Night Czar position provide value for taxpayer’s money? How is this assessed?