• Question by: Elly Baker
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Elly Baker AM: Thank you, Chair. I would like to pick up with some comments made right at the beginning of this set of questions about road speeds. I support the comments you made highlighting the difference in road danger at lower speeds and the Labour Group supports 20 mph on appropriate roads. I understand Assembly Member Hall feels differently and in a recent interview she stated that she believes they make accidents more likely and quoted, “I pay far more attention” said Assembly Member Hall “when I am driving at 30 mph than when I am driving at 20...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Léonie Cooper AM: Thanks very much, Chair. Mr Mayor, I do not like to call people liars, so I am going to say I think we have had some misrepresentation this morning. I am just wondering if we could clear up a couple of misrepresentations. You have not actually paid any money into trade union bank accounts, have you? You have made money available for TfL to pay its staff.

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Keith Prince AM: Anyway, on the question of your failures, you said when you came to office you were going to be the Mayor of zero strikes. We all hoped and prayed that was going to be true. Regrettably, I believe to date we have seen 139 strikes, which is a lot more than the 35 strikes of the person we will not mention where you said it was a disgrace. We only have a few months left. Do you think we will have zero strikes between now and the end of your term?

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Emma Best AM: Thank you. The substantive issue I wanted to talk to you about today was a failure in relation to what was a wonderful event again - the London [New Year’s Eve] fireworks - but the failure in stewarding that event. I wanted to read briefly the testimony of Jennifer who was a teacher who travelled 150 miles from Telford on a three-hour journey and this is what she said when she arrived of her experience, “We joined the pink zone line at 8.20 with tickets. We lined up for hours and barely moved. We remained in the...

• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Emma Best AM: Thank you. Good morning, Mr Mayor. I saw in your answer to Assembly Member Hall on floating bus stops you referenced again the DfT guidance, and I know we spoke about this previously. However, there is a type of floating bus stop being used in London called a backless bus stop. There is currently one in Kew Bridge and there is one due to be built in Lea Bridge. They are not in the guidance, and they just do not work. You said there is a review, but we raised this on 18 May [2023] and we...

• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Nick Rogers AM: Thank you, Chair. Just briefly, Mr Mayor, you mentioned the phrase “step-free desert”, which is one I have used before in relation to Chiswick, a key area of London served by the Piccadilly line and the District line, but none of the stations there have step-free access. Just a quick plea, if you could ask your team to go and look at what they can do at those stations. I know that they are difficult stations, there is no easy solution to step-free access there, but an entire area of London is without step-free access, therefore could...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Andrew Boff AM (Chair): C ould you start the clock on this? Mr Mayor, you referred to the important objective of ensuring that as many stations as possible have step-free access. There is, however, once people using wheelchairs know where the lifts are, shall we say where step-free access is, then they can plan their journey. It does not help with planning their journey when so many lifts in outer London seem to go out of order on a repetitive basis. I wondered if you might look into that for the future, see what progress has been made. Last year...

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Susan Hall AM: T hank you. Me again. What action has been taken against the ULEZ enforcer when he apparently knocked over Heather Watts - I am sure you recall that - in Biggin Hill?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Susan Hall AM: Good morning. You said at the very beginning you are going to – or in fact that you were – the most transparent Mayor ever. Now, if we look at your diary, you made a commitment to publish your diary as part of being open and transparent, all that sort of stuff. But the last update was 29 April 2022.

• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Neil Garratt AM: M orning. Just thinking about your capacity as Mayor and also as Chair of TfL, you spoke to media in November 2022 during the discussions about ULEZ and you said, “What we want is a scheme that can treat each driver differently in relation to time you are driving and distance that you are driving.” That is obviously you describing what you want is a pay-per-mile road user charging scheme. But then by September here you told my colleague Assembly Member Best, and I quote, “As long as I am Mayor”, meaning you, “we are not going...