• Reference: 2020/2157
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

In your press release of 6 May 2020, you said that London risks grinding to a halt if even a small proportion of people switch from using public transport to cars. Could you provide data on the use in London of car, taxi, cycle, tube, tram and bus each day from 1 March 2020.

• Reference: 2020/2156
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Constituents have raised concerns with me that low traffic neighbourhoods are not being coordinated well between boroughs. Could Transport for London (TfL) provide more coordination to help boroughs devise plans that work across borough boundaries?

• Reference: 2020/2155
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Constituents have raised concerns with me about the slow pace of progress on the Streetspace programme. Why is it taking so long to award money and deliver these schemes on the streets: is it the availability of money to invest, equipment to deliver change on the ground, or political commitment?

• Reference: 2020/2154
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

In the June 2020 DEFRA report, Estimation of changes in air pollution emissions, concentrations and exposure during the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK, experts said that: “it would not be surprising if there was a link between exposure to air pollution (past or present) and the occurrence or severity of COVID-19 infection.” Given this, will you look at extending the boundaries of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) out to the existing Low Emission Zone boundary to improve and expand the reduction in NO 2 already seen within the current ULEZ borders?

• Reference: 2020/2153
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Constituents have contacted me regarding your decision that special circumstances warrant relocating the Green Dale playing pitch onto Green Dale Playing Fields, which is designated as Metropolitan Open Land (MOL). Moving the pitch onto the MOL will mean loss of free, open access sports facilities for a dense urban area. During the coronavirus lockdown, the fields and the path alongside have been used much more extensively than before and the loss of open-access space would hit local people hard. Will you reconsider your decision given the new awareness of the need for open space for exercise and leisure?

• Reference: 2020/2152
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

When will you make all toilets at Transport for London (TfL) stations free to use?

• Reference: 2020/2151
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

At the final meeting of the Climate Assembly UK in May 2020, members discussed the changed context for reaching net zero created by the coronavirus pandemic and overwhelmingly agreed that: “steps taken by the government to help the economy recover should be designed to help achieve net zero.” As the London Recovery Board begins to navigate London’s future in a post-crisis world, will you commit to ensuring that any steps taken meet this statement?

• Reference: 2020/2150
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Your Environment Strategy states that by 2030, 65 per cent of London’s municipal waste will be recycled. Yet, London sends 58 per cent of local authority collected waste to incineration while recycling just 33 per cent. I met with the North London Waste Authority on 25 June 2020 to ask them to pause and review their incinerator expansion plans before they put the construction contract out to tender. Will you join me in this request?

• Reference: 2020/2149
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Residents have written to me to express their concerns that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) concentrated flightpath review is being pushed back indefinitely. Will you ask the CAA for more transparency and clarity about the consultation to show support for overflown Londoners whose lives are blighted by the noise and disturbance?

• Reference: 2020/2148
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

Could you provide an update on the effect coronavirus has had on meeting your waste reduction and recycling targets?