• Reference: 2023/4733
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Earlier this year it was revealed that Hounslow Council had written to you asking you to extend ULEZ exemptions for school transport vehicles, and to ensure that Hounslow and other boroughs would be given additional time to upgrade their fleets. Did you agree to their request?

• Reference: 2023/4732
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Will you consider extending the 71 bus route so that it serves Malden Rushett?

• Reference: 2023/4731
• Question by: Nick Rogers
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Will you consider extending the 467 bus route so that it terminates at Epsom Hospital instead of in Epsom Town and increasing its frequency?

• Reference: 2023/4730
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Did the Commissioner's report to the TfL Board of 13th December inform them of the total number of people killed and hospitalised by London buses in the report period?

• Reference: 2023/4729
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

On 11 September 2019, a former TfL Board Director and Safety Panel Chair told the London Assembly Transport Committee and your Deputy Mayor for Transport: “We owe it to the victims of that accident [Sandilands] and we owe it to victims of accidents on the buses and on other parts of the network to get to the bottom of exactly how this organisation is run. How does it deal with this sort of situation? What happened? Why did it happen? How did they do that audit? What lessons can we learn about how to do audits? How can we make...

• Reference: 2023/4728
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How can you reconcile the statement you made in your response to question 2023/4109, “improving the safety cultures within their organisations is an ongoing action, it is one which TfL is fully committed to” with the fact, despite my having asked and you acknowledging it, the TfL Commissioner’s Report for the forthcoming TfL Board Meeting contains no mention of TfL reporting that 167 people were hospitalised and 1 person was killed from preventable bus safety incidents in the third quarter of 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4727
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

How can you reconcile your statement in your response to question 2023/4108 that, “I am confident that TfL has the balance right in improving safety culture through enabling open discussions combined with collecting robust and reliable data to assess safety performance” with the facts that both (a) TfL’s ‘Quarterly Safety Bus Meeting’, and (b) TfL’s ‘Bus Fatigue Management Working Group’ meet in secret, have no published minutes/agendas and do not include any representatives of bus drivers or the public?

• 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?