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• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I want to start with you. I want to talk about the weight of traffic there is coming into London. This really is a burden on Londoners’ shoulders, and it particularly affects outer London near our strategic roads, where there is noise and there is pollution. Obviously there are different things causing that traffic, a couple of facts are I asked outer Londoners and they told me, one in four of them, that they felt forced to. n a car because of the lack of public transport services. But there...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 06 July 2023

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning. I want to focus particularly on connectivity, and I found it really interesting this conversation on park-and-ride. We have been a pretty lone voice in supporting the Mayor of London’s park-and-rides. We already operate many of them across TfL station car parks. I use one most days and I am glad that it looks like we are not going to be the only ones who have concerns about building over them. Thank you and welcome to the team, Siân [Berry]! My first question probably best for you, Andy, if that is OK. I...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM: Thank you very much. My questions are also to the Mayor. You will recall, Mr Mayor, the election campaign of 2016, where from the very start, sitting on platforms with Assembly Member Pidgeon and yourself, I would not stop going on about the need for a London-wide ULEZ and smarter, fairer road charging. It is a huge relief to finally see an outbreak of widespread, political courage on this matter; I really appreciate it. For my question, I wanted to go back to what the Transport Committee asked in relation to promoting safety considerations as part of...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Emma Best AM: Thank you. I was really brought in by Assembly Member Baker’s line of questioning there, and Assembly Member Unmesh Desai, actually, let Assembly Member Keith Prince finish earlier, so perhaps I will expand all that for her, though I had not planned to. That is the really important point, those lost journeys. A lot of the emails I get are about “I go and visit my Dad or my Mum/I do the shopping for my uncle every week, and I am not going to be able to afford to make that journey.” How are you measuring that...

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 17 November 2022

Siân Berry AM (Chair): Thank you very much, Chair. I have a tiny bit of time left, and I wanted to reflect back on the kind of communications we are getting. I have been getting a lot of emails. By and large, the people who are against this scheme are being terribly reasonable and just pointing out to me that they have a degree of car dependency, and they are worried about the cost to them of changing their vehicles. We are getting some quite constructive conversations about what they would need in order to do that. Something you said...

• Reference: 2022/1748
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

As part of the Road Task Force work under a previous Mayor, Transport for London (TfL) published a paper with an analysis paper titled ‘How many cars are there in London and who owns them?’, which provided useful data on car ownership in London. With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Would you consider updating this paper, and could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years (2017-2019) with full fieldwork showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough? https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in…

• Reference: 2022/1749
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

With reference to the answer to my question MQ 2022/1347. Could you provide a table using data aggregated over the three most recent years with full fieldwork (2017-2019) showing household car ownership by household car income, by borough?

• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Siân Berry AM: Just briefly, I just want to say at the start that I have already had lots of constituents get in touch about huge concerns they have about cuts to the buses. That consultation is vital, and I will be encouraging many Londoners to respond. But today, for my questions, I am going to focus on fares and the cost of living and put my first question to the Mayor. I am really concerned about the impact of the cost of living crisis on people who depend on using public transport. A Royal College of Nursing survey in...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 09 June 2022

Emma Best AM: In 2017, TfL modelling suggested that 135,000 vehicles per day would use the expanded ULEZ and that was the justification for spending £130 million on the expansion. Fast-forward to today - or to November [2021] when we had the last stock of that - and you have 50,000 chargeable vehicles travelling within the expanded zone. That is a little over a third of where the estimated figure came in the forecast. Now, looking ahead to the London-wide expansion, TfL estimates that 87% of vehicles travelling within that zone will be compliant, leaving 13% that are not. There...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 02 September 2021

Emma Best AM: Good morning. I want to start with a question to the Mayor in particular regarding the ULEZ. I wanted to open up my question by trying to explain the regional concerns with a quote from Labour’s candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green in the 2019 election. She said: “Whilst we want to do something about air quality, we’ve got the politics wrong. [People say to me] “This is actually unfair,” and I don’t have an answer to them. This is unfair.” One of those great unfairnesses we see regionally in Chingford is where we have very poor...