• Reference: 2011/1070
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

The new speed humps installed on Bastable Avenue in the Thames Ward of Barking are seen by residents and users to be inferior to the ones they replaced. Do you agree with me that issues such as this are important to local residents and will you instruct TfL to liaise with the local Council and councillors to correct the problems?

• Reference: 2011/1069
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Barking Riverside is one of the largest single regeneration schemes in London and yet the quality of work for the ELT by TfL is letting it down. The grass on Bastable Avenue has yet to be replaced causing frustration to local residents. Will you ask TfL to programme this simple job?

• Reference: 2011/1068
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Local Councillors rightly complain about the poor quality work carried out by TfL on the stretch of the East London Transit running through the Thames Ward in Barking & Dagenham. Adequate bus shelters were replaced with ones that have proved easy to vandalise and repeated requests to remedy the situation have fallen on deaf ears. Will you instruct TfL to liaise with the Council to remove what are now skeletons of shelters and install something simpler and tamper proof?

• Reference: 2011/1067
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

I have been contacted by constituents concerned about the impact of the Work Capability Assessment on Autistic, Autistic Spectrum and Asperger's recipients of the Employment & Support Allowance. Given autism's effects on communication, the WCA has proved a source of anxiety to many with autism and their carers and families who are concerned the Assessment will fail to fully comprehend the consequences of autism on a sufferer's life, with potentially significant consequences in terms of the support they receive. In light of ACT NOW's Impact Assessment Report detailing the concerns of those affected, will the Mayor lobby the Department for...

• Reference: 2011/1066
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

One of the legacy promises for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 was an increase in community sport to be encouraged by the galvanising effect of the Games themselves and investment in grass roots sport. You have produced a strategy that aims for 'a leaner, fitter London' and you have made a £15.5 million fund available. In a recent publication, A Sporting Legacy for London? The Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism committee considered progress towards your sporting legacy goals for 2012 concluding that the achievement of a sporting legacy was always going to be difficult but it is likely...

• Reference: 2011/1065
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Are Westminster heartless in banning the feeding of homeless people?

• Reference: 2011/1064
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Have you or will you respond to this report? If so, can I see a copy of your response? If not, why not?

• Reference: 2011/1063
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Given that the 3month trial is costed at £156,000, implying an annual cost of over £600,000, this implies a recognition that the economic and other costs of delays exceeds this amount. Can you provide the figures on which the benefit/cost calculation was based and advise what the BCR is?

• Reference: 2011/1062
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

Given that you boasted and sought credit for the early opening of the Overground connection between Dalston and Highbury & Islington, are you happy to accept the blame for the delay to the extension of the DLR to Stratford International?

• Reference: 2011/1061
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 March 2011

How will the proposed use of contactless bankcards for travel avoid inadvertent account deductions?