• Reference: 2023/4125
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

As you know, the mileage covered by TfL’s contracted bus fleet has shrunk from a peak of 304 million in 2015 to 292 in 2022. Accordingly, will you confirm that the rate of Bus KSIs per mile has increased while you’ve been Mayor and TfL Chair?

• Reference: 2023/4124
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

As you know, since 2016 TfL’s contracted bus fleet has shrunk from 9367 in 2016 to 8796 in 2022, while KSI Injuries involving Buses have increased to a level that exceeds that of 2016. Accordingly, will you confirm that the rate of KSIs per bus has increased while you’ve been Mayor and TfL Chair?

• Reference: 2023/4123
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

A Comparison of the ‘Bus Fatality Data’ shown on the chart on Page 22 of TfL’s ‘New’ Bus Safety Strategy announced on 7 September 2023 with the ‘Bus Fatality Data’ released by you in question 2023/3343 on 14 September show different Total Fatality Figures for, respectively, 2018 (the Bus Safety Strategy shows “11” while Question 2023/3343 shows “12”) and 2022 (the Bus Safety Strategy shows “9” while Question 2023/3343 shows “8”). Which total fatality numbers are correct? How do you explain the discrepancy? Do you acknowledge that TfL giving out two different numbers for ‘Annual Bus Fatalities’ in two different...

• Reference: 2023/4122
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your response to question 2023/3631 you erroneously state “The chart on page 19 of the Bus Safety Strategy shows that, by the end of 2022, the number of people killed or seriously injured in collisions involving London buses had reduced by 65 per cent against the 2005-09 baseline, compared to an overall reduction in people being killed or seriously injured on London’s roads of 52 per cent. This shows that TfL’s focused approach to bus safety is achieving results.” A quick review of the correct chart will confirm my point that, during your time as Mayor, KSIs from Bus...

• Reference: 2023/4121
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Given TfL’s failing bus safety performance, as the Chair of the monopsony for public bus services in London, will you consider compelling TfL’s bus contractors to appoint stakeholder representatives – e.g., passenger, safety, local business representatives or bus workers’ organisations—to their boards to ensure that safety is these companies’ first priority?

• Reference: 2023/4120
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your long-delayed response to question 2017/2661, you provided evidence in question 2018/1251 which showed that – for the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017 – 209 pedestrians were injured after being struck by TfL bus mirrors, an average of over 1 such injury per week. Will you please provide me with the updated "Pedestrians Struck By Bus Mirrors” information for the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023 including the (a) date of the incident (b) age and (c) scale of injury for each of the victims injured after being struck by a bus mirror?

• Reference: 2023/4119
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your 17 July 2017 response to question 2017/2661, you stated “This [Pedestrian Struck by Bus Mirrors] information needs to be extrapolated manually from TfL's systems. I have therefore asked TfL to provide this data in writing and send it to you separately.” Can I assume that since you launched Vision Zero in July 2018, that this vital safety information is routinely collected and analysed by TfL’s Chief Safety Officer and its Vision Zero team?

• Reference: 2023/4118
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your response to question 2023/2113, you stated, “Having had additional time to conduct a more thorough search of records, TfL has found information relating to this incident that it shared with the other London bus operators in June 2016. While confident that each individual operator would have made the relevant amendments to its training procedures, it is seeking assurances that these continue to remain in place”. Have you now received assurances from bus operators? Please will you provide evidence that these assurances were sought and verified by TfL?

• Reference: 2023/4117
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

How many bus door exit panels were identified as defective as a result of the 5 October 2023 Safety Bulletin? In your answer, please indicate the number of buses, the relevant bus operator and the bus model.

• Reference: 2023/4116
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Since May 2016, how many insecure bus door exit panel incidents has TfL recorded? For each incident, please provide me with the date, bus route, bus model, age and injury status of the victim.