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  • Driving Offences in the Taxi & PH Driver Policy

    • Reference: 2024/0758
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    Under driving offences in the Taxi & PH Driver Policy, the document states, ‘The Mayor’s Transport Strategy commits to delivering a ‘Vision Zero’ approach in London to make its streets safer for all by reducing deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads’. In determining the offence punishments for drivers, was there an evidence-based approach? If so, will the Mayor provide the data?

  • Evidence-led' Bus Safety Policy: TfL's in-depth investigation work based on STATS19 Data

    • Reference: 2024/0759
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    In your response to 2024/0187, you stated, "Transport for London’s (TfL’s) in-depth investigation work seeks to obtain a thorough understanding of the root causes and mitigations of incidents where the most serious outcomes have occurred". You went on further to state, "Where an injury sustained by a bus customer or other road user is reported to the police the contributory factors should be recorded (by the police) as part of the STATS19 data set. TfL uses STATS19 data to understand wider patterns of causation of road safety incidents that result in injury, regardless of the severity." As you know, the...

  • Vision Zero: Tripartite Meetings and Bus Safety

    • Reference: 2024/0760
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    In your response to question 2023/0911 you stated: 'TfL's Tripartite Meetings [were an] "established forum attended by representatives from TfL, bus operators and Unite the Union to discuss, inform and consult on matters affecting the common operation of London’s bus network, for example customer experience and staff welfare." And in your response to question 2023/4725: "The Bus Safety Programme is regularly on the agenda for tripartite meetings" But in your response to Question 2024/0174 you stated: "Transport for London has undertaken 1 Tripartite Meeting in 2023, this took place on the 17 November 2023 in person at Palestra House." In...

  • TfL Buses Incident Response Unit: Risk Assessments of Bus Routes, Road Works and Roads used for Temporary Diversions

    • Reference: 2024/0761
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    In your response to question 2024/0188, you stated that TfL Buses Incident Response Unit "proactively carry out risk assessment of bus routes, road works and roads used for temporary diversions to ensure continuous safety." Can you provide me with recent examples of 'proactive' risk assessments carried out by the Unit for each of the categories you identified?

  • Vision Zero: Independent Review of Bus Depot and Bus Garage Safety Practices

    • Reference: 2024/0762
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    After the recent fatal bus crashes at Walthamstow and Victoria stations, bus drivers have contacted me expressing their concerns about unsafe driving practices which they have observed at the TfL bus garages and depots including, but not limited to, untrained staff (a) driving buses dangerously around the depot (b) parking buses on designated walkways which force bus drivers to walk in dangerous areas to get to their buses. In your response to question 2021/4507 you stated, "Transport for London (TfL) does not require the bus operating companies to share copies of their risk assessments covering activities within their garage environments.”...

  • Casualties from Bus Collisions and Bus Safety Incidents at Bus Garages (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0763
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    What is TfL’s current threshold for reporting deaths and serious injuries at bus garages?

  • Casualties from Bus Collisions and Bus Safety Incidents at Bus Garages (2)

    • Reference: 2024/0764
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    Can you provide me with aggregate figures for the annual number of people killed or seriously injured at TfL bus garages from May 2016 to the present?

  • TfL access to Bus Operators RIDDOR Notifications to the Health and Safety Executives (1)

    • Reference: 2024/0765
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    Since the announcement of your 'ambitious' Vision Zero Programme in July 2018, does TfL now have unhindered access to bus operator RIDDOR notifications that are sent to the Health and Safety Executive?

  • TfL access to Bus Operators RIDDOR Notifications to the Health and Safety Executives (2)

    • Reference: 2024/0766
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    Does TfL regularly review and assess bus operators’ RIDDOR notifications that are sent to the Health and Safety Executive?

  • TfL access to Bus Operators RIDDOR Notifications to the Health and Safety Executives (3)

    • Reference: 2024/0767
    • Question by: Keith Prince
    • Meeting date: 22 February 2024
    Based on your long-delayed response to question 2023/1355, would TfL not having “visibility” of its bus operators’ RIDDOR notifications be a violation of these companies' "contractual requirement that suppliers and contractors working on behalf of the GLA or TfL promptly notify their contract manager of any health and safety hazards that exist or may arise in connection with the performance of the service being delivered"?