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  • Please Offer Me a Seat badge awareness raising

    • Reference: 2018/5383
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 20 December 2018
    I remain pleased to see your work with the Please Offer Me a Seat badges. However, I remain concerned that understanding around the Please Offer Me a Seat Badges remains low among Londoners, particularly in relation to “invisible” disabilities. Could you let me know what you are doing in order to raise understanding and awareness of the importance of giving up seats to those with badges, and of the nature and realities of invisible disabilities in general, aside from the poster campaign?
  • Accessibility beyond step free access

    • Reference: 2018/5384
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 20 December 2018
    Alongside the ongoing work of TFL to make stations step free and the Please Offer Me a Seat badges, can I ask what other work is being done to make both stations and the trains themselves to people with disabilities – including “invisibilities” and neurodivergent people?
  • Rail services

    • Reference: 2018/1671
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 21 June 2018
    After Chris Grayling's comments that Network Rail is currently "unable to cope" with the number of commuters, how is the Mayor working with Transport for London to ensure our transport systems continue to successfully meet the needs of commuters, despite the context of a struggle transport system under the current Government?
  • Safer Streets for Cyclists

    • Reference: 2018/1222
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 17 May 2018
    Following the news that there have been almost 400 incidences of cyclists being seriously injured, and in some cases killed, due to collisions with car doors in West London over the past seven years, will the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor of Transport work with Cyclists UK in order to tackle this and ensure our streets are safer for cyclists?
  • TfL Badges for Disabled Travellers

    • Reference: 2018/1224
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 17 May 2018
    I'd like to welcome the recent TfL adverts highlighting that TfL's badge for disabled travels can refer to mental as well as physical disability. How is TfL working to encourage uptake for using these badges among Londoners with mental health problems?
  • Criteria for step free access; consultation in Ealing and Hillingdon

    • Reference: 2018/0917
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 22 March 2018
    Following up on the Mayor's answer to my question on 22nd February, could the Mayor clarify which resident's associations and disability groups were consulted across Ealing and Hillingdon when deciding which stations would initially benefit from the Mayor's step free access fund?
  • Criteria for step free access

    • Reference: 2018/0564
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2018
    I'd like to welcome the steps that the Mayor has taken to make our tube stations across London more accessible, and am delighted to see many stations across Ealing and Hillingdon will be made step free under the new plans. What criteria were used for deciding which stations would be included in the plans, and what consultation was done with local groups?
  • Criteria for step free access II

    • Reference: 2018/0565
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2018
    Will the criteria that were used to decide which stations would be upgraded to have step free access be the criteria going forward to decide which stations will be upgraded in future?
  • "Please Offer Me a Seat" badges

    • Reference: 2018/0284
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
    Can the Mayor let us know what feedback has been had so far from the scheme, and whether this feedback shows that Londoners are aware of the scheme, and therefore responding positively to people wearing the badges?
  • Zebra crossing at Springfield Road, Hayes, Middlesex

    • Reference: 2018/0285
    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2018
    Given the recent accidents, involving young children on bicycles, outside Guru Nanak Sikh Primary School and Guru Nanak Sikh Secondary, Springfield Road, Hayes, Middlesex, do you support calls for a zebra crossing at Springfield Road, to improve road safety?