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• Reference: 2003/0241
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Will the information provided to people during the current consultation on the East London River Crossing include an assessment of the impacts of extra traffic on air quality and health in East London? If the building of this bridge does generate extra traffic, will it make it more, or less likely that you meet the Governments targets, and the E.U. targets, for air quality in the boroughs of Newham, Greenwich and Lewisham? .

• Reference: 2003/0242
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

In the London Mayor's response to Jenny Jone's question 760/2003 he states that 'the options for river crossings were considered in a range of earlier studies'. Did any of these studies look at alternative sites for a road river crossing? Did such sites include provision of a local bridge with only one lane each way for private motorised transport? Did any of these sites include a bridge with provision for only buses, pedestrians and cyclists? .

• Reference: 2003/0243
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Do you accept the conclusion in the John Elliot report 'a solution looking for a problem' (T2000, Mar 03) that the East London River Crossing will be capable of handling between 6,000 to 8,000 vehicles an hour in the morning peak? .

• Reference: 2003/0246
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

The TfL document on transport growth and the London Plan has a predicted 11% rise in motorised traffic across London by 2016. This is based upon the assumption that the increases in public transport capacity will happen and that if they don't then the result will be more over crowded trains, buses and tubes. Do you think that it is realistic to assume that car traffic won't grow faster if we get the population growth, the development growth, but not the increased public transport capacity? .

• Reference: 2003/0248
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Why are plans to widen the M25 crucial to London's prosperity? Has TfL been pressing for road widening as its contribution to the Orbit Study? Have TfL been slowly slipping back into a road building approach? Do you feel that the proposed large scale investment in laying fresh tarmac in London is preventing investment in traffic reduction measures, such as Safe Routes to School, car sharing, workplace travel plans, travelsmart, etc' .

• Reference: 2003/0252
• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Does TfL support a policy of developing LU property to maximise financial gain, or are other considerations of equal or greater importance? .

• Reference: 2002/0231-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Is the Mayor's waste strategy strong enough to avoid the need for new incinerators in London? .

• Reference: 2002/0234-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are the Mayor's advisors committed to a strong policy for waste minimisation and reduction? .

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Just quickly on the wheelie bins. Is it not the question of how large or small the wheelie bins are and that local authorities have tended to invest in wheelie bins that have turned out to be far too big, that people can shove everything in. If instead they had gone for smaller bins it would have created a lot less problems. When they look at replacing bins, as part of the general replacement programme, they need to look at the smaller size in place of the big ones.

• Reference: 2001/0237-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Are you aware that the Thermoselect HTR (High Temperature Recycling) flagship Plant at Karlsruhe, (quoted in the Draft Waste Strategy as having `emissions of less than 10% of those permitted by the German Regulations') was closed down in October 2000 for at least seven months because of a breach of German emission regulations? How will this affect the Waste Strategy's stance on new combustion technologies? .