• Reference: 2024/0197
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Since our last discussion in December, what actions have you taken regarding bus delays through Streatham?

• Reference: 2024/0196
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

What progress has been made to date on publishing a “statement of facts” promptly after a fatal bus collision, with the basic facts of the incident known at that time?

• Reference: 2024/0195
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Who are the Met external auditors?

• Reference: 2024/0194
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

An 11 December article in the Evening Standard reported London bus drivers claiming LTNs had removed bus lanes and that the resulting time pressure being placed on them by their employers and the public was compelling them to consider strike action. Is there any evidence to support their claim that the creation of LTNs removed bus lanes? Has Unite the Union raised the issue that hostility to LTNs might provoke strike action by London bus drivers at any tripartite meetings?

• Reference: 2024/0193
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

London’s mainstream media (cf. the Times, December 8 and December 21 and the Evening Standard, December 11) has recently reported bus drivers complaining that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are responsible for congestion and, as a result, they’re being subjected to intense pressure from their employers and the public to keep to contracted headway targets despite increasing congestion. Do you accept claims from these bus drivers that LTNs have had a negative impact on bus network performance? If not, do you have evidence to prove bus schedules have not been affected by LTNs?

• Reference: 2024/0192
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

The 29 Nov 2022 tripartite meeting minutes you sent me on 18 December 2023 notes a “Key Question” of the ‘Bus Safety Strategy currently in draft’ is “Challenges of reducing deaths by 50% over the next 10 years, how likely is to be delivered?” Since the cover page of TfL’s ‘New’ Bus Safety Strategy states “Delivering a safe bus network in London with no-one killed on, or by, a bus by 2030 and no-one killed or seriously injured on, or by, a bus by 2041” is the ‘Key Question’ detailed in those November 2022 Tripartite Minutes written in error? Or...

• Reference: 2024/0191
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

The 29 Nov 2022 tripartite meeting minutes you sent me on 18 December 2023 state: "The Bus Safety Strategy is currently in draft, and is open for comment, the document is due to be published in 2023." Can you provide me with a copy of the draft Bus Safety Strategy that TfL offered to its bus operators and Unite the Union for comment at the meeting?

• Reference: 2024/0190
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2023/3631 “The chart on page 19 of the Bus Safety Strategy shows that, by the end of 2022, the number of people killed or seriously injured in collisions involving London buses had reduced by 65 per cent against the 2005-09 baseline, compared to an overall reduction in people being killed or seriously injured on London’s roads of 52 per cent. This shows that TfL’s focused approach to bus safety is achieving results.” Disregarding TfL’s continued use of a – in my view - questionable 2005-09 baseline, do you think it’s logical to compare the safety...

• Reference: 2024/0188
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

From your quick responses to questions 2023/4696, 2023/4697 and 2023/4698 and your failure to respond to question 2023/4699, am I correct in assuming that the sole purpose of the TfL Buses Incident Response Unit is to monitor and report on delays and or disruptions to the timely performance of TfL’s contracted bus operations and, despite its name, the unit has no operational safety performance monitoring or response function?

• Reference: 2024/0187
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2022/1044, you stated “where an incident has met TfL’s criteria to trigger a more thorough investigation, bus operators are expected to identify the root causes and contributory factors of the incident. This would include, as part of the investigation, recording and investigating communications between the bus controller and bus driver.” However, from your response to question 2022/5364 you confirmed that less than a half percent of bus collisions which occurred between 1 April 2016 to 31 December 2021 met “TfL’s criteria to trigger a more thorough Investigation”. How do you reconcile your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero...