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Tackling vehicle idling (2)

  • 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.

Tackling vehicle idling (1)

  • 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?

Bus shelter at Sheendale Road

  • 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.

Barking Riverside infrastructure

  • 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?

London is Open PR Agency

  • 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?

Delivery of Beam Park Station

  • 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...

Proposed new waiting area for Private Hire Vehicles at Heathrow airport

  • 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?

Touting at Heathrow Airport (2)

  • Reference: 2018/5149
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 20 December 2018
Please set out what is the policy of TfL compliance officers in terms of entering the car park at Terminal 4 to ensure effective action is taken to tackle touting?

Touting at Heathrow Airport (1)

  • Reference: 2018/5148
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 20 December 2018
Please state how many taxi or Private Hire licences have been revoked in each year since 2016 for touting at Heathrow Airport.

Taxis operating during collapse of the mobile phone network

  • Reference: 2018/5147
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 20 December 2018
Please state whether taxi drivers who are unable to accept bank and credit card payments during a collapse of the mobile phone network, as took place on the 6 December 2018, are expected to cease working by TfL? If such guidance exists, will you ensure it is revised to ensure taxi drivers are not penalised during collapses in the mobile phone network?
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