• Reference: 2024/0186
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Can you confirm if bus operator investigations include any of the following information: 1) TfL speed data at the time of the incident. 2) TfL traffic light data at the time of the incident. 3) TfL iBus data for the relevant trip prior to the incident. 4) Use of the TfL iBus messages by the controller for the relevant trip prior to the incident. 5) TfL accident data for the location of the incident. 6) History of TfL speed data for the location of the incident. 7) History of TfL iBus data for the route in question. 8) TfL complaint...

• Reference: 2024/0185
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Of the 3257 bus collisions that have resulted in the hospitalisation of a crash victim over the period 1 January 2014 to 30 September 2023, for how many of these incidents does no bus CCTV evidence exist? Will you please provide me with the exact number of ‘missing’ CCTV data incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0184
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Out of the 82 bus collisions that have resulted in a fatality over the period 1 January 2014 to 30 September 2023, for how many of these incidents does no bus CCTV evidence exist? Will you please provide me with the exact number of ‘missing’ CCTV data incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0183
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your responses to questions 2023/4703 and 2022/1220 rejecting the Transport Committee’s and various Assembly Members’ long-standing and repeated requests for independent investigations of bus crashes, you use nearly the exact same statement in each response: “Much of the data collected around the circumstances is objective or supported by CCTV evidence, and therefore would not differ whether compiled by an independent entity, TfL, or the operators themselves. Any attempt to misrepresent the circumstances would be taken extremely seriously.” As you know, the CCTV evidence on buses is collected, maintained and owned by TfL’s bus contractors, the same party TfL entrusts...

• Reference: 2024/0182
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your responses to questions 2023/4703, 2023/2814, 2022/1220 and 2019/21049 you’ve asserted that TfL allows bus operators to conduct their own investigations of crashes involving their vehicles because they are “best placed” to “compile evidence” and “commence investigations”. Can you explain why you think bus operators are ‘best placed’ to investigate crash incidents involving vehicles they own and drivers they employ? Are you aware of any other contracted vehicle fleet in London (or the United Kingdom) that is similarly indulged?

• Reference: 2024/0181
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

While you’ve already made it clear from your response to, inter alia, question 2023/4703, that you have no intention of asking TfL to independently investigate collisions involving its contracted bus operators’ vehicles because bus operators are “best placed to compile the evidence”, has TfL ever issued instructions to bus operators detailing what precise information these investigations should contain to support your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero goals? If so, can you provide me a copy of these instructions and some evidence that bus operators are abiding by them?

• Reference: 2024/0180
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

How do you reconcile your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero goals with the facts that (a) in your response to question 2023/4128, you confirmed that TfL’s highest-ranking Safety Officer achieved NEBOSH & IOSH Qualifications over 3 years after being appointed to that role and (b) in your response to question 2023/4794, you confirmed that TfL’s new Head of Buses lacks those qualifications which were, in fact, long-held by the outgoing officer? Is “learning about safety on the job” one of the key attributes of your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero programme?

• Reference: 2024/0179
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In September 2023, I asked you question 2023/3338 “For the 110 incidents of TfL bus drivers critically injuring pedestrians on zebra crossings during the period 1 January 2016 to 11 July 2023, how many were prosecuted and how many were convicted? When will you respond with the data I requested?

• Reference: 2024/0178
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Given the facts that a) your Vision Zero programme was announced in 2018 and (b) a 2014 London Assembly Investigation reported that “an astonishing 25 per cent of pedestrian deaths and serious injuries occur at pedestrian crossings”, I was astounded to discover in your response to question 2023/2811 that TfL’s ‘centralised reporting system’ to which all “bus operators are required to report all safety-related incidents that occur on the bus network…does not specifically record crossing types”. Will you immediately commit TfL to updating its ‘Bus Safety Reporting System’ to include crossing types?

• Reference: 2024/0177
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

It has come to my attention that after a recent bus route tender, the bus operator that TfL selected as the winner has reduced the meal break times and stand time offered by the previous incumbent to bus drivers by, respectively, 20 and 50 percent. In making its decisions about bus tenders, does TfL consider how the winning bids may extract costs from operations and how these plans may degrade working conditions that have a direct impact on long-standing and well-evidenced safety problems like driver fatigue and distracted driving?