• Reference: 2023/2820
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

There have been press reports about the fact that about a fifth of Croydon Trams have been put out of operation due to the discovery of wheel damage after a routine TfL inspection. Why didn’t TfL put out a press release about this discovery? Since the RAIB and SNC Lavalin Investigation Reports mention sand being used by Tram Drivers during emergency braking, can you warrant that the wheel damage was not as a result of emergency braking? Are you concerned that the Tram Operator First Group TOL didn’t discover this serious safety problem?

• Reference: 2023/2819
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Since our discussion over Question 2023/1333 on 23 March 2023, I’ve been doing some further research about the number of people killed and seriously injured (i.e., sent to hospital) in Bus Safety Incidents since you’ve been Mayor. Based on TfL’s own published data, we know that 65 people have been killed in Bus Safety Incidents (about 1 per month), 75% as the result of a collision, 7909 people have been hospitalised (over 3 per day), 25% as the result of collision (so, about 1 per day). Following up on our discussion, will you ensure that the Commissioner’s Report for future...

• Reference: 2023/2818
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

At a 13 June meeting of the Budget and Performance Committee I chaired, with regard to TfL’s Bus Contractors electrifying their fleet as part of your commitments to Net Zero, TfL’s Chief Safety Officer stated "So we [TfL] see it as our problem. It's our target and our bus network. And we need to work with the private sector to help solve that problem. But that's our role to ensure that these goals and ambitions are worked through. So... even if it's not on our balance sheet, it doesn't mean it's an issue we aren't trying to work on". I...

• Reference: 2023/2817
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Regarding your GPS tagging pilot for knife crime and domestic violence offenders, what is the timeline to convert this pilot programme into a business-as-usual operation, and what criteria need to be met for that to happen?

• Reference: 2023/2816
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

What future evaluations do you intend to publish on your GPS tagging pilot for knife crime and domestic violence offenders?

• Reference: 2023/2815
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Please can you share any evaluations that have been completed on your GPS tagging pilot for knife crime and domestic violence offenders?

• Reference: 2023/2814
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

In your response to question 2022/1220, you did not commit to establishing an independent bus crash investigation unit, as was recommended by the London Assembly Transport Committee in ‘Recommendation 10’ of its “Driven to Distraction” bus safety investigation. You indicated that TfL is first ‘awaiting the findings of the Department for Transport’s consultation for the creation of a Road Collision Investigation Branch’. In your time as Mayor and TfL Chair, TfL’s own published data reveals that about one person per month has been killed and one person per day has been sent to hospital as the result of TfL bus...

• Reference: 2023/2813
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

In your response to question 2023/1326, you admitted that “TfL has not sought legal opinion on the priority classification as all parties concerned have indicated they are supportive of the current approach.” As you already know, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Workplace Regulations 1992, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the Construction Regulations 2015 and the Equality Act 2010 oblige TfL and its bus contractors to provide toilets for workers. Can you cite any clause in this legislation which permits TfL and its bus operators to deny toilets to London bus workers...

• Reference: 2023/2812
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Comparing the data found on figure D2 “Progress towards the MTS Bus Involved Fatalities target for 2030” with the data TfL publishes on its bus safety data site, I note that figure D2 contains the incorrect fatality data for the following years: 2017 D2 shows “8” when TfL published “11” on its site 2018 D2 shows “12” when TfL published “14” on its site 2019 D2 shows “6” when TfL published “9” on its site 2020 D2 shows “9” when TfL published “6” on its site How do you explain this vast discrepancy between these two important TfL safety data...

• Reference: 2023/2811
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 20 July 2023

Further to questions 2019/4159, 2019/2081 and 2018/5146, I note that on 12 November 2022, an adult male was killed on a zebra crossing by a Go Ahead route 118 Bus in Merton. Updating the spreadsheet you provided in response to question 2018/5146, please can you provide a list of all incidents since 4 December 2018 involving TfL bus drivers hitting pedestrians on zebra Crossings, listing route, bus operator and bus company, bus garage, and setting out the borough and exact location of each Zebra crossing, and the outcome of any investigations?