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• Reference: 2004/1933
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Do you believe that the additional powers you are to be given over commuter rail in Greater London in the forthcoming Railways Bill will enable you to give Londoners any serious improvement in the standard of their travelling experience during your second term ?

• Reference: 2004/1938
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How do you reconcile planning 10,000 car parking spaces at Stratford City and similar provision for Silvertown Quays with the aim of making Thames Gateway regeneration sustainable ? Is this not clear evidence that Labour's vision for the Thames Gateway has not moved on from Thamesmead ?

• Reference: 2004/1744
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Is the Mayor aware of concern amongst residents living around Crystal Palace Park that the period until the LDA might take over the park will see a failure by Bromley Council to adequately support the park?

• Reference: 2004/1745
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Is the Mayor aware of the widespread disappointment in South London at the absence of a fireworks display at Crystal Palace over bonfire night weekend?

• Reference: 2004/1754
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

In light of suggestions that the devolved Scottish and Welsh institutions should have nominating rights to the BBC Board of Governors, what representations has the GLA made for a London nominee on the BBC Board?

• Reference: 2004/1762
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Will the Mayor join me in campaigning for the TOCs in Greenwich and Lewisham to upgrade stations to Secure Station standard?

• Reference: 2004/1770
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Is it right that taxpaying commuters should pay for transport policing on the railways through their national taxes, fares and council tax as proposed by the Lib Dems and Tories?

• Reference: 2004/1865
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Given your acknowledgement, as reported in the Muswell Hill Journal on 3 June 2004, that the Alexandra Palace is a "regional resource" and a "huge financial burden" for the borough of Haringey and that suggested extra funding could be made available to it by the Greater London Authority, could you detail what steps you have taken since June to offer your assistance to Haringey and set out what immediate and/or future plans you have to do so.

• Reference: 2004/1873
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What action are you taking in response to the findings by the Audit Commission of continuing low levels of public satisfaction in the Metropolitan Police Service in some areas and the low levels of confidence and trust which ethnic minority communities still have in the police? What progress do you expect to see in these two areas in the coming year?

• Reference: 2004/1901
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

The K1 hopper service is being turned into a bus stop service and elderly residents are complaining that they will not be able to walk to the bus stops. In Kingston there is a shopping mobility programme and so once at Kingston they can access shops. Transport for London are gradually turning hail and ride services into bus stop services to meet the DDA regulations. This is to facilitate access to wheelchair users. The hail and ride services often serve town shopping centres where shop mobility programmes are present. While accepting the need for dedicated wheel chair access points, how...