• Reference: 2007/2555
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What could you do to maximise the benefit of the Crossrail project to South London residents? Could the business contribution be extended to help part fund the Cross River and the Oxford Street Tram Projects?

• Reference: 2007/2554
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

The construction of the platforms and station at Blackfriars Bridge as part of this project are likely to lead to the temporary blockage and disruption of the Thames Footpath. Are you satisfied that this period of closure is going to be well managed, kept to a minimum and that visitors and tourists walking along the pathway will have a suitably accessible and well-marked diversion route to take?

• Reference: 2007/2553
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Thank you for your informative and thorough reply to my question 2348/2007. When ongoing maintenance works necessitate regular and routine closures, please could you ask TfL to display the end date of their works on the www/tfl.gov.uk/trafficnews website to "ongoing" which is more reassuring to motorists than "not known".

• Reference: 2007/2552
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Thank you for your reply to my question 2349/2007, advising that the tunnel closes for ongoing essential maintenance. Your reply also advises that your answer to my question 2348/2007 explains how TfL publicise works that may affect traffic movements. I have checked www.tfl.gov.uk/trafficnews for works to the Rotherhithe Tunnel. It explains that the tunnel is closed for maintenance and refurbishment. Please can you explain to me what refurbishment works are being undertaken in this tunnel? The website advises that the end date for these works is not known. Please can you provide an end date for the refurbishment works the...

• Reference: 2007/2551
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Please can you explain to me TfL's system of contract maintenance for the above project. Will costs be recovered from the contractor for the delays to the project? What lessons has TfL learnt from this project that can improve tendering, contract maintenance and project management for future projects?

• Reference: 2007/2550
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Please can you provide a full explanation for the timetable slippage for the above works, previously to be completed by March 2007, now January 2008. How did TfL communicate this delay, and the reasons for it, to motorists using the tunnel?

• Reference: 2007/2549
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Last month I asked if you could provide full details of the refurbishment, maintenance and any other works being carried out in the Limehouse Link tunnel. Your reply to question 2350/2007 explained the routine maintenance work. Your reply made no mention of the upgrade works as part of the safety enhancement scheme. Why are these works not mentioned on the TfL traffic news website you referred me to in answer 2348/2007? Will you encourage TfL to put information about these upgrade works on their website so that London's motorists can easily find an explanation behind any delays they experience?

• Reference: 2007/2548
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Thank you for your reply to my question 2350/2007. Your reply advises that your answer to question 2348/2007 explains how TfL publicise works that may affect traffic movements. I have checked www.tfl,gov.uk/trafficnews for the maintenance works to the Limehouse Link Tunnel, and it does not feature on the map at all. Therefore, will you encourage TfL to put the information about these maintenance works on their website so that London's motorists can easily find an explanation behind any delays they experience.

• Reference: 2007/2547
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Given the proposal in your draft housing strategy that such a policy be rejuvenated can you advise how many nominations have London Boroughs made to seaside and countryside homes inn the past seven years? And in anticipation of the answer, why not?

• Reference: 2007/2546
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What action would the Mayor propose taking to ensure that the law protects all bus users from the harmful effects of second hand smoke while waiting at stops?