• Reference: 2016/3560
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Further to your answer to Question 2016/2944 where you reiterate your commitment that no more of Londoner's taxes that you control will go into the Garden Bridge, what specific assurances are you seeking from the Garden Bridge Trust to convince you that your commitment can be met while still offering a GLA financial guarantee for the maintenance and upkeep of the bridge? Will you expect the Garden Bridge Trust to provide an endowment fund to ensure that the yearly maintenance and upkeep costs can be met on a long term and sustainable basis, and if so what would you estimate...

• Reference: 2016/3559
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Following the introduction of the Hopper bus ticket on the 12th September 2016 please state how many people have benefited from the ability to make a second bus trip using Oyster Pay As You Go or contactless payment within one hour.

• Reference: 2016/3558
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Your announcement on the 30th September 2016 on your proposals to rid London's roads of the most dangerous lorries failed to incorporate the proposal of retrofitting clear vision panels in passenger-side doors, despite 82% of all respondents to a recent TfL consultation stating they supported or strongly supported this proposal. Please publish in full the research that TfL has obtained that supports its recent claim that fitting glass panels would only deliver a very limited improvement in vision for drivers and that glass panels are not suitable for all vehicle types.

• Reference: 2016/3557
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Following your announcement of the 30th September 2016 to seek to rid London's roads of the most dangerous lorries will you further consider encouraging the freight industry to adopt the CIRAS system of confidential reporting to cover HGV operations in London?

• Reference: 2016/3556
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

In addition to recording formal complaints does TfL regularly collect any further information about customer satisfaction from customers?

• Reference: 2016/3555
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Considering the very low proportion of private hire vehicles which are fully wheelchair accessible compared to the 100% wheelchair accessibility of taxis since 2000 would you agree to lobby for a reduction in VAT on all taxis and private hire vehicles which are fully wheelchair accessible?

• Reference: 2016/3554
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

What is the percentage of private hire vehicles licensed in London that are wheelchair accessible?

• Reference: 2016/3553
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

A 2014 TfL investigation of the Über operating model suggested that Über BV supply private hire vehicles to London Ltd. Please state why Uber BV, operating as a separate business entity from Uber London Ltd, does not need an operators licence to make provision for the invitation of a booking? Will you consider looking at the this operating model again?

• Reference: 2016/3552
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

Further to the answer to Question 2016/2474 how many of the 110,000 private hire vehicle drivers have signed TfL's Equipment Guidelines documentation named "Guidelines for Aftermarket Electronic Devices and Equipment in Private Hire Vehicle"?

• Reference: 2016/3551
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 October 2016

A constituent has asked with TfL licensing private hire vehicles outside the capital what is the purpose of a Topographical Knowledge test of London? Will TfL also insist that London private hire operators only despatch trips to London private hire vehicles and TfL licensed drivers that are operating within the Metropolitan Police District (or Greater London area)?