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Private Hire Vehicles - Zero Emission Capable requirement

  • Reference: 2017/2080
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
All new licensed taxis are required to be Zero Emission Capable (ZEC) from January 2018. Why is Transport for London (TfL) not applying the same licensing requirement to all new Private Hire Vehicles (PHVs) at the same time?

C11 bus route speeding

  • Reference: 2017/2079
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 March 2017
A constituent has contacted me having witnessed speeding by the C11 bus. In answer to my question 2016/4128 you said that Transport for London (TfL) is creating a speed compliance monitoring system using iBus data and that new buses from January 2017 will have intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) fitted. Do any C11 buses currently have ISA fitted, and could you share your iBus compliance data for this route for the past year?

Highbury and Islington station match day overcrowding (3)

  • 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?

Highbury and Islington station match day overcrowding (2)

  • 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?

Highbury and Islington station match day overcrowding (1)

  • 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?

Highbury and Islington station overcrowding

  • 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?

Hyde Park 'rumble strips'

  • 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?

Fish Island Bridge

  • 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...

TfL lane rental scheme

  • 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?

Bus operator of the year award

  • 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?
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