Sadiq Khan intervenes over TfL’s removal of book exchanges

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00:00Well the first I discovered that the plans to take away these very small bookshelf slash libraries

00:08was today and I've seen the difference they make by speaking to communities around Highbury,

00:12Islington, Oval and other parts of the network and so you know TfL and LfB are responding

00:20to my request and I'm hoping there'll be a very swift announcement that this decision has been

00:25u-turned. Fantastic, my last question, clearly a more serious virus than one that's been talked

00:29about in the last couple of days is e-bikes being brought into the tube, there are serious

00:33concerns about that, what do you want to see done in terms of a potential ban passed against them

00:37on the underground? Well I've seen the images from Rayleigh's Lane which are scary, I've also

00:43know that there have been three Londoners who've lost their lives with fires in their homes caused

00:47by e-bikes, it's a serious issue and so what TfL are doing with LfB is a proper risk assessment

00:54because anybody who's seen those images will be asking the question you know but for the

00:58grace of God and it's really important that we take safety seriously, safety is the number one

01:02concern of TfL and of me and so this risk assessment will tell us that you know what

01:09risks there are but also we need solutions.