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• Reference: 2024/0953
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 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." However, when, in question 2024/0761, I asked for 'recent examples of 'proactive' risk assessments carried out by the Unit for each of the categories you identified', you responded by providing an example of a 13 February 2024 risk assessment at Temple Fortune Lane in Barnet between Hoop Lane and Finchley Road conducted by a Network Traffic Controller (NTC). Are a "Network Traffic Controller" and "TfL Buses...

• Reference: 2024/0954
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Following up on your response to question 2024/0761, will you provide me with a copy of the risk assessment at Temple Fortune Lane in Barnet between Hoop Lane and Finchley Road conducted by a Network Traffic Controller (NTC) on 13 February 2024?

• Reference: 2024/0955
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Following up on your response to question 2024/0761, please will you provide me with all communication (internal and external emails, handwritten notes, internal and external memos) associated with the decision for a Network Traffic Controller (NTC) to carry out a risk assessment at Temple Fortune Lane in Barnet between Hoop Lane and Finchley Road on 13 February 2024?

• Reference: 2024/0956
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

The data provided in your helpful and quick response to question 2024/0764 shows that during the four-year period from 2016/17 to 2019/20, 91 people were sent to hospital from bus garages after safety incidents, while during the four-year period from 2020/21 to 2023/24 year to date, only 6 "serious injuries" have been recorded at bus garages. Although you warn that "the two datasets below are not directly comparable" because TfL changed the 'metric' between the periods, you failed to provide any documentation that might explain the reasoning behind TfL's decision to make this substantive change. Can you provide the decision...

• Reference: 2024/0957
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

As per your response to question 2024/0764, was Unite the Union consulted on TfL's decision to change the 'metric' to account for casualties from bus collisions and bus safety incidents at bus garages?

• Reference: 2024/0958
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Following up on your response to question 2024/0764, does TfL have any information on the status of the health conditions of the 6 people it records as suffering "serious injuries" from bus collisions and bus safety incidents at bus garages during the period 2020/21-2023/24 year to date?

• Reference: 2024/0959
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In your responses to questions 2024/0765, 2024/0766 and 2024/0767, you admitted that "Transport for London does not receive copies of notifications to the Health and Safety Executive made by the bus operating companies as part of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)" but "it does receive this information as part of its incident reporting procedure which contains a requirement for bus operators to record incidents that have been reported under RIDDOR". For the avoidance of doubt, for the period 2015 to year to date and broken down annually, can you provide me with the number...

• Reference: 2024/0960
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In your response to question 2024/0769, you assured me that the missing 25 November 2016 incident where a 46 bus operated by Comfort Delgro Metroline under contract to TfL critically injured a pedestrian at a zebra crossing had "now been updated in the incident database to include ‘zebra crossing’ and will therefore feature in future." What is the protocol for updating TfL's 'incident database'? Can any member of TfL staff just go in and reclassify a record or is there a paper trail that evidences material changes to the database that I assume is crucial for TfL to assess progress...

• Reference: 2024/0961
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

In your response to question 2024/0769, your explanation as to why TfL's Incident Database didn't include the 25 November 2016 incident where a 46 bus operated by Comfort Delgro Metroline under contract to TfL critically injured a pedestrian in a zebra crossing – I.e. your explanation "as neither ‘zebra’ nor ‘pelican’ featured in the incident description free text for the collision on 25 November 2016, it was not captured in the search used to generate the list that was provided to you" implies that TfL's Incident Database is too primitive to support its various 'world leading' bus safety programmes or...

• Reference: 2024/0962
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

Further to your response to question 2024/0770, how many people have been killed as a result of ‘Pedal Confusion Incidents’ during the period 2010-2023?