Speaking to the London24 website about fears that funding for the Woolwich Crossrail solution will be cut, preventing it being ready for the opening of the line in 2018, Caroline Pidgeon said:
This would be a criminal waste of public money and a real betrayal of people in south east London
Lib Dem blogger Mark Pack has an article on the frequent closure of Oxford Circus tube station due to overcrowding - which TfL rarely publicise.
Caroline Pidgeon's investigations revealed that there was a temporary closure at the station 163 times in a year-long period - nearly one day in two!
Caroline Pidgeon AM went to her home town of Eastleigh to help the local Lib Dems with the Parliamentary by-election.
Caroline was joined by lots of London Lib Dems including Chair Mike Tuffrey for a day of campaigning.
Caroline Pidgeon AM recently visited the Olympic Park to meet with the London Legacy Development Corporation and to see first hand the plans for new housing and the conversion of the existing housing in East Village, the flats used by athletes during the 2012 Games.
"It was good to see so much progress and to hear the plans going forward. I would however like to see a lot more social and genuinely affordable housing in the next phases of housing" commented Caroline.
Speaking to the BBC on the £3m cost to London taxpayers of the 24-hour police guard around the Ecuadorean embassy, Caroline Pidgeon said:
It should be spent on policing in London, it shouldn't be spent on policing an embassy in what is effectively an international matter. I think the Government should be paying up for this.
See the video report at the BBC News website.
