• Reference: 2024/0223
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

On 14 December 2021, TfL Bus Driver Lorraine Robertson alerted the Transport Committee to TfL’s contracted headway targets not being fit for purpose: “The problem that we have with speed limits as a bus driver is that we drive to a timetable, what is called a headway. Now that we are coming across roads that have the 20mph speed limit, our timetables have not been changed to take into consideration that we are going 10mph less, doing 20mph as opposed to 30mph. That is a problem that we are having”. Following up Lorraine’s tip-off, you and I have been having...

• Reference: 2024/0222
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Your helpful and quick response to Question 2023/4114 shows over your term as Mayor, some progress has been made by TfL to reduce the number of high-risk non-compliant roadworks, but the overall level of non-compliance remains stuck at about 20 percent. Do specific contractors or companies regularly account for a disproportionate portion of this seemingly-persistent level of non-compliance? What powers does TfL possess to mitigate the problem of non-compliance?

• Reference: 2024/0221
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Following up on your response to question 2023/4721, will TfL be issuing a Vision Zero “Incident Alert” for the fatal collision involving a Route 65 bus operated by RATP and an 86-year-old female pedestrian that occurred on 1 November 2023?

• Reference: 2024/0220
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

For the 85 (provisional) fatal bus crashes which have occurred in London from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2023, how many of these have occurred at bus stations? Please will you provide me with the exact number of incidents, victim profile, victim mode of transport, the incident date, bus station name, bus route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0219
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Did TfL ever conduct a risk assessment of the pedestrian crossing on which an elderly woman was killed on 15 December 2023? I ask, because the location of the crossing coupled with the points listed for ‘RRAs and driver guides for routes using bus stations to consider’ suggest this was ‘an accident waiting to happen’.

• Reference: 2024/0218
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

I was recently apprised of a document TfL circulated to bus operators entitled “Incident Alert – Fatal bus collision with Pedestrian“ that provides some details about the 15 December 2023 fatal incident at the Walthamstow Bus Station. I believe that this “Incident Alert” is a useful document and is similar to the “Statement of Facts” that I have requested in question 2023/4724 and which Caroline Pidgeon AM also requested in question 2017/1690. Will you consider publishing this kind of document for every fatal bus incident in a timely manner on TfL’s website?

• Reference: 2024/0217
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

On page 29 of TfL’s ‘Bold’ New Bus Safety Strategy there’s a text box entitled ‘Deviation from the Bus Safety Standard roadmap’ which unambiguously states that there will be delays in TfL’s implementation of its technology-based solutions to policies which promote unsafe behaviour (e.g., speeding to meet contracted headway targets) and unsafe working conditions (e.g. fatigue-inducing rosters and rota changes). Given that TfL knows it no longer can depend on long-term technology-based solutions to improve bus safety within its Vision Zero time frame, will you consider Mayor Johnson’s February 2016 promise to “update TfL Bus Contracts to included new Bus...

• Reference: 2024/0216
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Does TfL have any evidence to support the claim that people will move to more dangerous modes as a result of higher bus fares?

• Reference: 2024/0215
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Data published on TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Data’ page shows that over the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023, there have been 37 Bus Crashes in which people have been killed. For these 37 incidents, please will you provide me with the exact number of speeding incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0214
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Data published on TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Data’ page shows that over the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023, there have been 1447 bus crashes in which people have been sent to hospital. For these 1447 incidents, please will you provide me with the exact number of speeding incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?