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• Reference: 2004/0053-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What consideration has TfL given to promoting a citywide partnership to improve road safety across London? .

• Reference: 2004/0054-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What progress has been made on proposal 4G.22 contained the Mayor's Transport Strategy, which commits to working with TfL to establish and investment programme to implement new signing initiatives .

• Reference: 2004/0055-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What work is being undertaken to establish the impact that bad street nameplate maintenance has on people with visual impairments? Are there any plans to sample the quality of street nameplate across London? .

• Reference: 2004/0056-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What is being done to assess the impact that bad street nameplate design, positioning and maintenance has on emergency vehicles responding to emergency calls? .

• Reference: 2003/0311
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

With rising land values in London, what contingency funding is available to support increasing costs associated with identified, prioritized and necessary infrastructure projects, such as station improvements, that will enhance the Olympic bid? .

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Thank you for that. Clearly, there is a great deal of private sector support for the Olympic bid. I know the London Business Board is very much behind what is happening. Can you tell us what discussions there have been with the private sector about either PPP arrangements for contributing or helping with the Olympics in general, and, more specifically, in terms of private sector involvement in funding improvements for the general street environment in time for 2012?

• Reference: 2003/0178
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What priority will you give to raising tube stations to the Secure Stations standard? .

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Can I have your assurance that the focus of this, including the works on CCTV and so on, will not simply be about Zone 1, the most used stations, and the one where all the tourists go. In the area I represent, and I know there will be colleagues around the table for whom it is the same, that it is the most suburban, perhaps less busy, stations in which people feel the most insecure. Will efforts be targeted outside the central zone?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Thank you for that. The information I have, and it may be out of date, is that only 27 Tube stations had achieved the Safer Station status. I accept your point that this may be an expensive process, so what alternatives would you put in place to establish the extent to which the users of stations feel they are safe and secure? A survey I conducted of users in my constituency earlier this year found that 40% felt their station was unsafe. They also had concerns about cleanliness and the lack of adequate information there. What steps would you see...

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What are your objectives in terms of staffing of stations? Do you have a core figure that you feel should ensure that, however remote it is in terms of the London Underground empire, there will always be staff on duty and available to passengers should they want reassurance or information?