• Reference: 2018/5159
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Does TfL still hope that it will be possible to introduce these trains into public service before the next Class 172 diesel train transfer to West Midland Trains in early January 2019?

• Reference: 2018/5158
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

In response to the motion passed by the London Assembly on 8 March 2018 you stated that you were requesting that TfL is given the power to issue penalties for idling, which it currently does not have. Please provide an update on this issue.

• Reference: 2018/5157
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

In response to the motion passed by the London Assembly on 8 March 2018 on the issue of tackling vehicle idling you stated TfL is working the Metropolitan Police Service to identify further ways to educate and encourage motorists to turn off their engines when required by law. Please provide an update on the outcome of this work.

• Reference: 2018/5156
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Will you take the lead in delivering a proactive Londonwide awareness raising and behaviour change campaign to tackle vehicle idling that will reach out to all Londoners and visitors? For example, by using advertising space on property and assets managed by TfL, such as buses and the London Underground; using TfL’s communication tools such as its regular page in the Metro newspaper; its Twitter feeds and its website and also the use of advertisements on radio stations.

• Reference: 2018/5155
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Do you believe the existing idling traffic regulations are good enough to effectively tackle idling?

• Reference: 2018/5154
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Please set out the precise reasons why TfL recently removed the bus shelter at Sheendale Road, at the junction with the A316. Please also state whether there are any plans to replace it.

• Reference: 2018/5153
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Director’s Decision 2300 allocates £10 million of grant funding from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016 – 2021 to Barking Riverside Limited to meet a shortfall in available funds to deliver infrastructure within the Barking Riverside Project. Are you content that this is an equitable deal between the public sector and Barking Riverside Limited, with risk of the development and the potential benefits fairly shared?

• Reference: 2018/5152
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

While fully supporting the objectives of your London is Open campaign can you explain why it is necessary to allocate £30,000 of expenditure to Freud Communication Ltd for activities such as engaging people in tweeting, when such activities could be undertaken by GLA staff?

• Reference: 2018/5151
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Following the Director’s Decision DD2296 which proposes that the GLA takes responsibility for the delivery of Beam Park station from the London Borough of Havering and that £8.8 million in recoverable grant is converted to non-recoverable grant, will you ensure that an investigation is undertaken into the initial Overarching Borough Agreement (OBA) that was entered into in December 2015, examining whether there has been an effective use of public resources? Please also state when officers at the London Borough of Havering first indicated to the GLA that the council was unable to offer sufficient capacity or resource to project manage...

• Reference: 2018/5150
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 December 2018

Further to your answer to question 2016/1353 has any progress been made in analysing the impact on congestion and pollution that would be created by the proposal of Heathrow airport to create an 800-car waiting area for Private Hire Vehicles?