• Reference: 2023/4726
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In your response to question 2023/4108 you cited “Feedback from operators in a ‘safe space’ has been important in identifying areas of concern”. By ‘safe space’, it would appear to me that you mean “secret” and “unscrutinised by anyone outside of a small group of TfL and bus company managers”. Accordingly, might not TfL’s clear decision to allow a small cabal of industry insiders to identify “areas of concern” in bus safety performance explain why KSIs from bus safety incidents are more frequent now than when you became Mayor?

• Reference: 2023/4725
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Following up on your admission in your answer to question 2023/1326 that TfL has never conducted a human factors analysis of its unpublished and unscrutinised “agreement” with Unite the Union and its bus contractors to deny bus drivers access to a toilet for up to 150 minutes on 1 in 4 London bus routes, I recently saw a Unite the Union notice from what I believe is an Abellio garage which stated, “The long standing agreement is that the bus can do 1 round to heat up and should be subbed if there’s no heating”. I note that Unite’s Lead...

• Reference: 2023/4724
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In your response to question 2017/1690, you rejected Caroline Pidgeon AM’s reasonable proposal for TfL “to issue an impartial RAIB-style "Statement of Facts" immediately after any bus safety incident where someone has been killed or seriously injured.” Given that, during your time as Mayor and TfL Chair, there has been an average of over three people per day sent to hospital from bus safety incidents will you reconsider your reluctance to be transparent about these all-too-frequent incidents?

• Reference: 2023/4723
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

In press reports on the crash of an Arriva 141 on 13 June at Green Lanes in Islington, one person mentioned “the bus driver fainted due to the heat" and “regained consciousness soon after the crash”. How is the Bus Driver now? What are the “lessons learned” from the incident?

• Reference: 2023/4722
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

I received a report that a pedestrian’s arm was severely injured in an incident involving an Arriva 133 Bus on 14 November, but I’ve seen no reports about this incident anywhere in the press or on TfL’s Social Media Channels. Will you confirm if the incident occurred and provide more details about the cause and lessons learned?

• Reference: 2023/4721
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

On social media, I saw reports that an elderly woman was killed by a bus near Sainsbury’s in Ham Parade, Kingston. I saw nothing in the press about this incident. Can you confirm this incident and provide more details about it?

• Reference: 2023/4720
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

I received a report of a child pedestrian being critically injured by a Go Ahead 357 Bus operating out the Northumberland Park Garage in Walthamstow in the second half of August, but the incident appears nowhere in TfL’s published Q3 Bus Safety Data release. I understand the child was still in a coma a week after the crash. Can you confirm this incident? If so, can you explain why it was not recorded in the Q3 Bus Safety Data release posted on TfL’s website?

• Reference: 2023/4719
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How many times for each month since May 2021 has an electric bus been unable to complete its planned duty in full because it failed to fully charge overnight?

• Reference: 2023/4718
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

You stated that you have ruled out ever introducing per mile road user charging. What are your reasons for now ruling this out?

• Reference: 2023/4717
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Will there be support for all councils to make licensing events easier rather than just Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Harrow and Islington?