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• Reference: 2004/0941
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

How is it possible for the Mayor to describe the four glass canopy £600,000 pounds bus shelters in St. Nicholas Way in Sutton as a walkway when they lead to an uncovered pavement away from shops, car park, cinema and bus stops to a fairly limited number of residences ?

• Reference: 2004/0942
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

At the last Mayoral Question time you stated that the £600,000 bus shelter in Sutton's St. Nicholas Way was not a bus shelter but a walkway. Do you feel then that the expenditure represents value for money ?

• Reference: 2004/0949
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 July 2004

Do you feel that it is appropriate for London Dial-a-Ride to decide that they will no longer accept group bookings for travel from charities and groups such as Croydon Neighbourhood Care Association and Selsdon Contact, when it is the elderly and frail customers who rely on this service for travel as they are no longer able to make the necessary transport arrangements for themselves?

• Reference: 2004/0738
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

You made a point in your acceptance speech of saying how proud you were in leading an administration involved in the redistribution of wealth. One of the key examples of this in your first four years in office has been a redistribution of wealth away from South London, with such a minimal amount of LDA spending taking place in that region. Following your encouraging remarks at the last Assembly meeting before the election, can I be reassured that redistribution of wealth away from South London by your administration will be greatly reduced in your second term?

• Reference: 2004/0710
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

The Kimpton Road project in Sutton designed to extend existing industrial and retail facilities and construct new roads and a recycling centre has been delayed since August 2003 by TfL Street Management. The Council and Tesco Stores Ltd, who are jointly developing this scheme, have agreed their plans and submitted planning applications on 11th August. These were referred to TfL on 13th August but it took until 14th January for TfL to ask for a new set of survey data, something that TfL could quite reasonably have requested in September 2003. In the meantime, the Development Control Committee has had...

• Reference: 2004/0711
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

The naming of the Coulsdon bypass is a matter of debate within the local community. A proposal put forward by the Coulsdon Forum is that there should be a full consultation process via local newspapers, libraries, notice boards etc. in order to determine which potential name from a shortlist would hold most local support. Would you support such a consultation proposal?

• Reference: 2004/0712
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

What possibility is there for TfL to provide for a direct bus service from Shirley to the Princess Royal Hospital in Orpington? Have any feasibility studies been carried out on this potential route?

• Reference: 2004/0713
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

What measures are considered appropriate to judge the performance of the A232 red route in Croydon and Sutton? What survey work has been done since the introduction of this red route to check performance against these measures? With traffic count analysis, over what hours of the day have these counts been undertaken?

• Reference: 2004/0714
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

If the East London Line goes ahead, do you see some merits in a link running to East Croydon station with its better tram links connections to main line services including services to Gatwick?

• Reference: 2004/0715
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

There has been a lot of publicity about bus shelters in Sutton and Croydon in recent months. What prospects are there for bus shelters to be provided along Davidson Road in Croydon? This is a bus route which only been introduced in recent years and perhaps full consideration has not been given to bus shelters in this area in the past.