• Reference: 2024/0212
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Your rejection of my proposal in questions 2023/3651, 2023/3366 and 2023/2822 seemingly confirmed that you are intent on paying bus operators involved in collisions that result in someone being killed or seriously injured. Given that, thanks to a Go Ahead London bus driver training video (cf. https://youtu.be/6AqpayPhxn4), we now know much more about the extensive features of TfL’s speed compliance tool, will you consider withholding payment for any mileage that’s driven over the speed limit?

• Reference: 2024/0211
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Will you consider adding a column to the data sets published on TfL’s “Bus Operator League Table” (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-operator-leag…) webpage to show the number of speeding incidents recorded by TfL’s speed compliance tool for each bus operator for each reporting period? If TfL has long ranked bus operators by ‘Excess Waiting Time’ (EWT) targets, wouldn’t also having that same page show how many times the bus operator broke the law through speeding to achieve those EWT targets be more in line with your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero goals?

• Reference: 2024/0210
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “the only [contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-performance…. Given the fact that we are told, since 2018, TfL holds detailed bus speed data for all bus routes on its speed compliance tool, will you add an additional column on the ‘Route Speed Reports’ to show the incidents of speeding TfL has recorded for each route for each reporting period?

• Reference: 2024/0209
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “the only [contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-performance… I note that in the Winter 2023 Edition of an industry publication Bus Talk, Go Ahead London MD David Cutts, writes, “On the road, the operating environment is becoming increasingly hard, with traffic the worst it has been for many years. Please be assured we are lobbying TfL for greater bus priority and more running time in schedules. Against this backdrop, we have maintained our now...

• Reference: 2024/0208
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2023/4793, you stated the “Speed Compliance Tool is useful for general monitoring and trend analysis”. Accordingly, please will you provide me with a spreadsheet showing the aggregate number of speeding incidents on a monthly basis across all bus routes recorded by TfL’s speed compliance tool for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2023?

• Reference: 2024/0207
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

The speaker in Go Ahead’s ‘London Speed Compliance Tool Training Video’ (https://youtu.be/6AqpayPhxn4) revealed that there were 1472 incidents of Go Ahead London buses speeding on Route 5 in November 2023. Can we assume that the speeding behaviour of Go Ahead London bus drivers on Route 5 in November 2023 is typical across all London bus routes? I ask, because – given Go Ahead London’s assertion that TfL’s speed compliance tool “shows them [TfL] everything about the bus breaking the speed limit” - that statement suggests that TfL knows that there might be an average of about 12 million speeding incidents...

• Reference: 2024/0206
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2023/4793, you stated, “TfL does not map data from the Tool to individual incidents” because “there are several known inaccuracies within the Speed Compliance Tool dataset”. I recently had the chance to view a Training Video (https://youtu.be/6AqpayPhxn4) produced by TfL’s largest bus contractor Go Ahead London in which the speaker directly contradicted your claims by revealing that TfL’s speed compliance tool “shows them [TfL] everything about the bus breaking the speed limit” and that “it shows them where it happened, what time it happened, what speed the bus was actually doing at the time…it also...

• Reference: 2024/0205
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

On 1 February 2016, the previous Mayor committed TfL to "Update TfL's bus contracts to include new safety incentives - Over the next three months TfL will be updating their bus contracting system and will develop incentives to encourage an even greater focus on safety". However, under your leadership, these fundamental safety changes never happened. In July 2016, in response to question 2016/2455, you indicated to Caroline Russell AM that TfL had changed “Update TfL's bus contracts to include new safety incentives…over the next 3 months” to “Introduction of Bus Safety Standard into Bus Contracts” by “December 2017”. In October...

• Reference: 2024/0204
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

While reading a recent article in The Times (22 December “DPD drivers put public safety at risk to hit their delivery targets”) I was struck by how much DPD’s now-discontinued “Traffic Light” system ‘that would show red if a driver was in danger of missing a delivery target’ resembled the headway monitor found in every TfL bus cab. As you know, iBus monitors display how many “bars” are between a driver’s bus and the bus ahead and the bus following, with – as I’m reliably informed by bus drivers – anything other than “5 Bars” showing between each bus being...

• Reference: 2024/0203
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

A long-running investigation by The Times details the collision KSIs and poor working conditions (long hours, distracted driving) associated with contracted timeliness targets embedded into delivery driver contracts and found on delivery driver dashboard technology. In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “[contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” are precisely the same kinds of timeliness targets that The Times has long exposed as dangerous for delivery drivers and that bus drivers have informed the Transport Committee are in place for them. Please explain why time-based headway...