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• Reference: 2021/4900
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Please provide me with the complete list of bus routes that only provide limited access to staff facilities and/or where bus services run beyond the opening hours of available facilities

• Reference: 2021/4901
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

A 14 September 2021 memo entitled “Bus Driver Welfare” presented to TfL’s Safety, Sustainability and HR Panel identifies “Routes with a round trip greater than 150 minutes with a toilet provision only at one end” receive only a “Priority 3” classification for action by TfL and its bus operators. Do you agree with me that forcing bus drivers to drive a bus for over 150 minutes without access to a toilet is —(a) dangerous (b) inhumane and (c) probably discriminates against women bus drivers and others with known health conditions? In order not to remain in contravention of prevailing health...

• Reference: 2021/4902
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Following up on your failure to respond to question 2021/4507, please provide me with copies of Covid 19 risk assessments provided by TfL bus operators to TfL since February 2020 to date.

• Reference: 2021/4903
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

During your time as Mayor, TfL’s published data shows 50 people have been killed in Bus Safety Incidents (39 collisions, 11 falls). In the spirit of your much-touted Vision Zero programme, will you publish the names and stories of these bus safety victims with reference to the specific actions TfL has taken to ensure that lessons were learned from these preventable deaths?

• Reference: 2021/4904
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Further to your responses to questions 2021/1959, 2021/1960, 2021/1961, 2021/1962 and 2021/1963, a recent press report (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/13/lond-o13.html) published copies of a document that is alleged to be a January 2021 memo from TfL that has already concluded that “Operators should continue to be able to introduce remote sign-on facilities.” If this document indeed exists, please provide me with a copy.

• Reference: 2021/4905
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Further to your response to question 2016/2968, it appears that the only research TfL has published on pedal confusion entitled “Identifying Solutions to Pedal Confusion in Buses” is dated 18th February 2011. This research identified 17 solutions to pedal confusion. How many of these 17 solutions were implemented? Does TfL have any more recent research on this long-standing bus safety issue?

• Reference: 2021/4906
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Is a taxi driver plying for hire when they are parked in an electric taxi bay charging their taxi and are they compelled to take a passenger on a 12 mile or 1 hour trip when on charge?

• Reference: 2021/4907
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Can you explain why TfL has ignored a disabled taxi driver’s reasonable adjustment request under the Equality Act to be released from the 12 mile or 1 hour compellability requirement due to their disability?

• Reference: 2021/4908
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

On which date did Bolt inform TfL Taxi & Private Hire of a change to their business model allowing private hire drivers to set their own fare rate?

• Reference: 2021/4909
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 December 2021

Does TfL Taxi & Private Hire consider it lawful for private hire drivers to set their own fare rate?