• Reference: 2017/3479
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Even with additional fuel savings (a Prius is capable of the same, if not greater savings) a new ZEC Taxi is going to be double, if not treble, what a typical PHV costs to operate in the same Market. The £7,500 grants that are rumoured to be available to Cabbies are clearly not going to be enough. Will the Mayor be looking to find more funding, or is the intention to price taxi drivers out of the market, as was warned by Jacobs in October 2014?

• Reference: 2017/3478
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

The New ZEC Taxi is going to cost significantly more than the estimated £40,000 quoted in the Jacob's Report: the new TX5 ZEC taxi is £55,600, and even the Dynamo Electric Taxi is priced at £46,000. How can taxi drivers expect to purchase a new ZEC Taxi and compete with a Toyota Prius in the same market without additional help?

• Reference: 2017/3477
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

With reference to the instruction to TfL staff to stop using the term "ladies and gentlemen" because it is deemed to be 'offensive, do you personally believe that the term 'ladies and gentlemen' is offensive? http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lefty-lunacy-london-underground-goes…

• Reference: 2017/3476
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

What will be the punishment for TfL staff who do not comply with the instruction not to use the words 'ladies and gentlemen'?

• Reference: 2017/3475
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Was it TfL TPH's intended policy to drive taxi drivers out of business, given that a table in the Jacobs Report shows that the number of PH Drivers has grown by 67% in the period between 2005 when PH Licensing was completed (and TfL took over running the Taxi & PH Industry from the Met. Police) whilst taxi drivers have only grown by 4%, and the report states: "If data on the number of registered drivers is a good indicator of relevant market share, it would appear that taxis have been challenged by PHVs in London over the last decade...

• Reference: 2017/3474
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Why have TfL ignored the conclusions of the Jacobs Report which states that: "Virtually all taxi drivers are self-employed and would therefore have to bear the cost of a new vehicle themselves while at the same time seeing the value of their present taxi diminishing. With a new zero emission vehicle costing approximately £40,000, and a high proportion of drivers over the age of 50, there is a risk, even with mitigation, of an exit of drivers and vehicles from the market. Taxi drivers with older vehicles can: invest in new vehicles, including second hand that meet the age limit...

• Reference: 2017/3473
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

While there are more than two billion passenger journeys a year on the bus in London, numbers are in decline. Between 2014/15 and 2016/17, the number of passenger journeys made on buses dropped by six per cent. Traffic speeds in London have dropped from 9.8mph three years ago, to 9.2 mph today. Is the reason for the decline in numbers predominantly due to the rise in traffic congestion on the roads?

• Reference: 2017/3472
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

Further to a conversation with Deputy Mayor for Transport Val Shawcross and TfL Commissioner Mike Brown in the recent Plenary session of the London Assembly, will you act to relieve the blight on residents living in Spout Lane North and near Harlington Fields from PH vehicles parking in residents bays and idling, littering and worse in these areas, as they wait for lucrative jobs at Heathrow Airport?

• Reference: 2017/3471
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

To ask the Mayor why the phasing of the traffic lights both before and behind Marble Arch are set on such a short 'green man' phase. The current settings demand feats of athleticism on the part of local pedestrians not normally found in the general population.

• Reference: 2017/3470
• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 14 September 2017

On 22 August 2017, the Evening Standard reported that there were 6,057 violent and sexual offences on the capital's railways, tube trains and stations in 2016, compared to 5,137 the year before. In response, the Labour MP Chris Williamson has suggested that the introduction of women-only train carriages could combat the rise in sexual offences on public transport. I recall that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn mooted the same point, during his leadership campaign in 2015. Does this suggestion have your support?