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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Can I raise this with you? Another way of introducing flexibility, Mr Mayor, would be for you to bring in a one-hour bus ticket allowing passengers to change buses without having to buy and pay for a new ticket. It happens across other European cities. When will you bring in a one-hour bus ticket for passengers in London?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, I think we have to draw an inference from what has been said about fares in this question. That is what the question was originally about. We have to draw the inference that perhaps the Labour Party believes that fares should not have risen at all since 2008 when you took over as Mayor of London. Can I ask if there is any estimate of how much revenue TfL would have had to sacrifice to keep the fares down for such a long period?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

My first question is to the Mayor. Going back to a theme that my colleague Assembly Member Shawcross was covering in terms of your achievements, six years on from your first election, only 24% of Tube stations are accessible. Is a Tube network that is largely a no-go area for those with access needs something to be proud of?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

One of the concerns I have - because it is vital to Enfield and Haringey with the development of Meridian Water and the Tottenham developments, some of the largest housing schemes for 20 years in London - is that Crossrail 2 will be vital to that. What case are you making both as Mayor and as Chair of TfL to make sure that the Government gives the green light and also that it puts money behind the scheme as well?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

I want to turn now to sexual harassment on the transport network because, looking at TfL reports for the last quarter from 1 April to 30 June this year, there was a 30% increase from the same quarter last year. The British Transport Police is also reporting similar increases on its network. Before you tell me it is about increased reporting during part of it. TfL’s own safety and security report for 2012/13 said that 90% of your surveyees did not report an incident, whereas last year it had actually gone up to 96%, so that might even imply --

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

I would like to get some idea. Seeing as the headline of the question was “2016 achievements”, I would like to explore some of the things that you feel you are still looking to achieve by 2016, particularly in southeast London, which is the area that I represent. Obviously one of your very high profile transport achievements is the timely introduction of a New Bus for London. I would like to know when we will see more of the elegant and benign transport mode south of the river, particularly southeast London.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, in your written submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, in front of which you are appearing this afternoon, you give a figure of a 20% reduction of oxides since 2008. I have all of your roadside figures here and I cannot find that figure of 20% and in fact it is much lower. I am wondering. When you talk about a reduction, are you using your modelling? Are you using your predictions rather than the real figures, which I have here and which do not add up to 20%?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

I want to just go on to ask a question about TfL’s equalities impact assessment to the Commissioner. If he is not able to give me the answer today, then I would welcome it in writing. When I was looking through the programme to reduce London Underground’s running costs by some £50 million per annum, and when I looked at the equalities impact assessment, it said that there would be no negative equality impact on the following key target groups: women; black and ethnic minorities; lesbian, gay men, bisexual and transgender people; young people; children; and faith group members. However...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

On the issue of accessibility, many of my constituents rely on the rail services rather than the Tube. If I look at, for example, the Great Northern line and the Hertford Loop and every station in my constituency from Haringey, Hornsey, Bowes Park and right up into Enfield, none of them has step-free access. Previously TfL had drawn up a priority list for bidding for access for all the funding and trying to support that. It had previously identified stations such as Alexandra Palace, Enfield Chase and Palmers Green as being priorities. The Government has announced that it is going...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 September 2014

Mr Mayor, do you think it is actually important in your pursuit of the Estuary Airport that everybody should be reminded it is not your scheme but is actually Foster’s scheme? I am afraid your scheme we are not talking about much anymore, but it is the Foster’s scheme ‑‑