• Reference: 2023/4115
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

I recently was apprised of a 5 October 2023 Safety Bulletin issued to all London bus operators “following an incident where an insecure exit door panel allowed a passenger to fall from the moving vehicle”. When and on what Bus Route did this incident occur? What was the bus model? What was the age and injury status of the victim?

• Reference: 2023/4114
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Given recent press reports about your intention to speed up roadworks to allow buses to move faster, a review of the TfL’s Board Meeting minutes showed that, on 23 May 2018, “Members noted that in the 2017/18 financial year, TfL completed 38,000 roadworks inspections to check that they were safe and compliant, and this had resulted in a noncompliant safety failure rate of 19 per cent from 2,000 statutory inspections.” Has the failure rate improved since that time? Will you provide me with data for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23 showing the number of roadworks inspected by TfL and the...

• Reference: 2023/4113
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

In your response to question 2023/3654 you admitted, “Transport for London does not hold route-level data on which routes have buses fitted with ISA.” In your response to question 2023/3441 you admitted, “TfL does not routinely receive information for all incident investigations undertaken by operators and resultant criminal proceedings undertaken by the Metropolitan Police Service.” In your response to question 2023/3333 you admitted, “Our incident reporting system does not specifically collect data relating to disciplinary outcomes”; and in question 2023/0930 you admitted, “The type of shift being worked at the time of an incident is not information that is routinely...

• Reference: 2023/4112
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Dashboard’ shows that since you’ve been Mayor, 62 people have been killed and 2651 hospitalised from bus collisions. Using the data TfL has been gathering from its speed compliance tool, in how many of these 2713 KSI bus collisions does TfL have evidence that the bus was breaking the law by speeding?

• Reference: 2023/4111
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Your shocking admission in response to question 2023/3652 that TfL has data about its bus contractors breaking the law by speeding begs more questions. In any incident where someone is killed or hospitalised by a bus, does TfL automatically supply this information to the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2023/4110
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Further to your disappointing response to question 2023/3648, can you explain to me how your Vision Zero goals will be met by having the Commissioner’s Report seemingly ignore people who’ve been hospitalised in the previous period from preventable ‘Bus Safety Incidents’?

• Reference: 2023/4109
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

One of the key conclusions of the Rail Accident Investigation Board report about Sandilands was the absence of a ‘just culture’ at First Group Tram Operations Limited, which undermined safe working conditions and practices. Meanwhile, while your Chief Safety Officer regularly praises the ‘collaboration’ TfL has with bus operators in ‘safe places’ free from public scrutiny, your bus drivers regularly provide evidence to me that London’s bus operation’s culture is, for the lack of a better word, toxic. Do you think London’s bus operators, which TfL oversees, have created and maintained a ‘just culture’ for the bus workers?

• Reference: 2023/4108
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

Given Justice Fraser’s sentencing remarks on Sandilands, which criticised TfL for its failure to conduct risk assessments and to act on complaints coming from passengers, coupled with your constant call for the need for ‘safe places’ where TfL and Bus Companies can discuss safety matters in secret, are you confident that TfL has robust and reliable feedback loops in place to ensure that it is getting a true picture of safety performance across its Surface Transport network?

• Reference: 2023/4107
• Question by: Emma Best
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

What are the total costs to date of the GLA’s relocation from the former City Hall?

• Reference: 2023/4106
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 16 November 2023

A recent Financial Times article gave the gruesome details of a woman who lost her arm and leg after falling on the tracks at High Barnet Tube Station. The article explained that the unsafe conditions at High Barnet Tube are not unique and can be found elsewhere across the Tube network with old platforms. Can you provide me with the risk assessments for people falling on Tube tracks at High Barnet Station and others with a similar dangerous configuration for customers?