• Reference: 2017/2078
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Will you ask Transport for London (TfL) to look at whether greater use of Drayton Park station could reduce overcrowding at Highbury and Islington station on football match days?

• Reference: 2017/2077
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Passengers report inadequate numbers of staff to keep them safe during overcrowding on football match days at Highbury and Islington station. How are staff numbers determined and how is it decided where staff are deployed within the station?

• Reference: 2017/2076
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Passengers are reporting frightening overcrowding on platforms, escalators and in tunnels on football match days at Highbury and Islington Station. How does Transport for London (TfL) monitor match day overcrowding at this station?

• Reference: 2017/2075
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

In response to question 2016/4320 you said that Transport for London (TfL) is encouraging users of this station to travel outside the busiest times in order to spread demand. What shift in peak demand has TfL achieved through the advisory measures it has taken so far?

• Reference: 2017/2074
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

The Royal Parks plans to fit 28 rows of raised granite setts - or 'rumble strips' - to the Broad Walk path between Speakers' Corner and Hyde Park Corner. There is no evidence of a high level of conflict between people walking and cycling here and the changes have the potential to deter people from cycling this route. Given that this link forms part of your central London cycling grid, will you urge the Royal Parks to reconsider?

• Reference: 2017/2073
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) plans to remove the dedicated cycle and pedestrian bridge from Monier Road in Fish Island to the new Sweetwater development in the Olympic Park and replace it with a vehicular bridge. A vehicular bridge is already located less than 250 metres north of the planned new bridge. Sweetwater will also have a new road built to link it to Waterden Road to connect with the A12, less than a kilometre away. As rat running is already a real issue in the Olympic Park will you either cancel plans to build this bridge or commit...

• Reference: 2017/2072
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

The lane rental scheme operated by Transport for London (TfL) applies to 56 per cent of the TfL Road Network. Has TfL a) considered applying it to speed up roadworks where they are planned in highly polluted areas, and b) looked at extending the scheme?

• Reference: 2017/2071
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Transport for London (TfL) gave the 2016 Bus Operator of the Year award to Stagecoach, the operator with the highest number of fatalities resulting from collisions with its buses. Does this undermine TfL's public message about the importance it places on the operational safety performance of its contracted bus fleet?

• Reference: 2017/2070
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

How many traffic engineers does Transport for London (TfL) employ who do not possess any engineering qualifications?

• Reference: 2017/2069
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 22 March 2017

Esther Hartsilver was killed by a heavy goods vehicle while cycling to work at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill. At the inquest the engineer appearing for Transport for London (TfL) said he had an economics degree but no engineering qualifications. What are TfL's recruitment and appointment criteria for its traffic engineers?