• Reference: 2016/4102
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

A constituent has asked to me to raise this question: In your reply to question 2016/2466 you stated that TfL had no plans to change the frequency of the service until after 2018 at the earliest. Does this include the retention of the following weekday PIXC-buster services? Is it the case, as your answer implies, that the new extension to Barking Riverside will only be able to handle 4 trains per hour in each direction and that there will be no opportunity to increase train frequencies at Barking Riverside to 5 trains per hour or higher? Does your reply also...

• Reference: 2016/4101
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

A constituent has asked me to raise this question: There are 44 Class315 trains operated by TfL Rail. They will be phased out from May 2017 and replaced by new Crossrail trains. Yet TfL Rail has invested heavily in the Class315 fleet, giving them a refurbishment in mid-2015, improving maintenance such that TfL Rail has just won a "Maintenance team of the year" award for a great improvement in reliability. These trains are now to be given a full overhaul, yet in twelve months several will be surplus to requirements. Could some of these surplus Class315 4-car electric trains be...

• Reference: 2016/4100
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Further to your answer to Question 2016/3571, a constituent has asked that as Class315 trains serve many station platforms on TfL Rail and Overground services that have no platform equipment and no train dispatch staff why is it that they cannot operate between Barking and Gospel Oak with a platform train dispatcher provided where the driver does not have a clear view down the length of a 4-carriage train?

• Reference: 2016/4099
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Further to your answer to Question 2016/2465, which stated that every Barking - Gospel Oak platform has at least one platform shelter, will you clarify whether any new passenger shelters or platform canopies will be installed when the line reopens, in addition to those already existing before the line closed?

• Reference: 2016/4098
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Following the extensive controversy over congestion along Jamaica Road will you agree to publish online all the research that TfL has undertaken to justify its decision to not adopt a time limited bus lane? Does TfL have any plans to undertake any further research into the effectiveness of the current 24-hour bus lane?

• Reference: 2016/4097
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

What steps are you taking to ensure that all house boats which are rented for accommodation on the Thames are fully compliant with the housing health and safety standards for rented homes.

• Reference: 2016/4096
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

What modelling has TfL undertaken on the impact that reduced Tube fares before 7.30 am would have on reducing overcrowding at peak times, such as on the Central Line?

• Reference: 2016/4095
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

• Reference: 2016/4094
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Please list which London Overground train stations are set to benefit from longer platforms by the end of 2017. Overcrowding on the Central Line Member: Caroline Pidgeon

• Reference: 2016/4093
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 November 2016

Do you support the campaign for VAT to be reduced for a time limited period on Euro 6 compliant taxis and private hire vehicles so as to encourage the rapid adoption of these vehicles by drivers and fleet owners?