• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Garratt, please. Neil Garratt AM: Hello, Commissioner. I would like to reprise our conversation about bus safety, if I may. Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the apology that TfL issued earlier in the week about the misinformation that had been circulated about Melissa Burr [victim of fatal bus accident] and acknowledging now, correctly, that she had done nothing wrong and was in the correct place on the crossing at Victoria. In your most recent Commissioner’s report to the TfL Board, you reflected on the changes that have been made subsequently at...

• Question by: James Small-Edwards
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Small-Edwards, please. James Small-Edwards AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. My question is to the Mayor. Given the National Infrastructure Commission said in May [2024] that an annual settlement is a sticking plaster and will not be sufficient to enhance London’s world-class public transport network, how are you working with the new Government to secure a multiyear capital deal for TfL?

• Question by: Alex Wilson
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Wilson, please. Alex Wilson AM: Thank you, Chair. My question will be to you, Mr Mayor, and it follows on from the question that Assembly Member Turrell has already raised. It will not surprise you. If you have seen the agenda for the rest of the meeting, you will be aware I am presenting a petition later on, which now has almost 4,000 signatures opposing the proposed charges for the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels, and most [Assembly] Members will also be aware there is another much larger petition currently in circulation and...

• Question by: Krupesh Hirani
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly member. Hirani, please. Krupesh Hirani AM: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Mayor. You committed to unleashing a public transport revolution in outer London, building on the success of Superloop 1 by introducing a second Superloop. Firstly, can you give us some details on how Superloop 1 is performing?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Best, please. Emma Best AM: Thanks. Good morning. I would like to ask first about the Pedicabs [(London)] Act that passed in April [2024]. I know that TfL is currently scheduling for early 2025 for consultation. It is somewhat disappointing that it has taken so long. Behind the scenes there may well be reasons, but it seems there is rarely an opportunity for a law where you have industry, residents and cross-party support to bring something into effect as soon as possible. Could you confirm to me that early 2025 means January...

• Question by: Bassam Mahfouz
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Mahfouz, please. Bassam Mahfouz AM: Thank you, Chair, and good morning. My question is to the Commissioner. The Mayor at the recent election made a very welcome pledge to expand the step-free access programme to cover half of the Underground network by 2030. The question is: how do you decide what stations are going to be included in that programme?

• Question by: Thomas Turrell
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you, Assembly Member Turrell, please. Thomas Turrell AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. I would like to direct my questions to the Mayor, please. Residents and businesses in west London have a lot more river crossings and no tolls, whereas residents out to the east of Tower Bridge have much fewer crossings and now face tolls on the majority of their crossings. Could the Mayor outline some plans he has to address this unfairness?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you. Assembly Member Desai, please. Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Mr Mayor. Mr Mayor, in your opening remarks, you quite rightly talked about the need for a safer transport network. However, recent figures from the BTP show an increase in the number of recorded violent crimes against women and girls on the transport network in the last year. How is TfL working with the police and the Government and other partners to keep London’s public transport system safe?

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 05 September 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): Thank you, Assembly Member Bailey, please. Lord Bailey of Paddington AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, Commissioner. I want to quickly talk about fare evasion. I am going to start with the Commissioner and come to you secondly, Mayor. Estimates around fare evasion are that it costs TfL around £150 million. Is that a figure you recognise, or do you think it needs to be revised up or down?