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Vision Zero: TfL offering ‘Safe Spaces’ from Public Scrutiny to Bus Operators

  • Reference: 2023/0927
  • Question by: Neil Garratt
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
In your response to question 2022/5399 you didn't release the name of the bus operator that your responses to questions 2022/3463 and 2022/2993 revealed was responsible for 41% of the buses with faulty air conditioning because “sharing the details of specific operator performance would undermine both our ‘safe space’ safety culture within the bus industry and TfL’s contract management process, especially if it relates to issues being rectified by the company concerned.” How can you reconcile TfL a providing ‘safe space’ from public scrutiny for bus operators it has evidence are failing to provide safe working conditions standards with your...

Overcrowding in cultural venues (4)

  • Reference: 2023/0926
  • Question by: Neil Garratt
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Can you please tell us of all reports your Night Czar has received of inappropriate behaviour of private security staff in London’s night time venues?

Overcrowding in cultural venues (3)

  • Reference: 2023/0925
  • Question by: Neil Garratt
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Was your Night Czar aware of overcrowding in London’s night time venues before at the O2 Brixton?

Overcrowding in cultural venues (2)

  • Reference: 2023/0924
  • Question by: Neil Garratt
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Can you please tell me what work your Night Czar has done to avoid overcrowding in cultural venues?

Overcrowding in cultural venues (1)

  • Reference: 2023/0923
  • Question by: Neil Garratt
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
According to a BBC article published on 17th January 2023, “Some security guards at Brixton Academy regularly took bribes to let people in without tickets, a whistleblower has told the BBC.” This allegedly led to hundreds of additional people attending the venue which could have caused an unsafe environment by breaching capacity limits. According to the same whistleblower, on the night when Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson sadly died there were also only 110 guards in place when there should have been 190. Furthermore it is also alleged the company that provided the private security was aware of these accusations...

Lack of Toilet Dignity for London Bus Drivers: Misleading Statements about Bus Drivers Access to Toilets

  • Reference: 2023/0922
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Analysis of spreadsheet data about toilet provision on 338 bus routes TfL sent to me privately in response to Member’s Correspondence reveals that where TfL claims a toilet is provided, access to the facility is limited by (a) specific hours (27 routes); (b) access fees (7 routes); (c) lack of supervision (59 routes) or the fact said toilets are either only temporary or may exist but are not accessible because they haven’t received local council sign-off (16 bus routes). Accordingly, will you acknowledge that your statement that “Drivers on all bus routes in London have access to a toilet” made...

Lack of Toilet Dignity for London Bus Drivers: Failure to conduct a “Human Factors” Assessment of the Agreement with Unite the Union, TfL and Bus Operators

  • Reference: 2023/0921
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
From your response to question 2022/4168 can I conclude that the agreement between TfL, Unite the Union and bus operators that seemingly denies toilet dignity to London bus drivers is based on a ‘criterion’ derived from an approximate calculation that has no basis in long-standing safety practice and prevailing Health and Safety legislation?

Dubious Quality of Bus Safety Dashboard Data

  • Reference: 2023/0920
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Can you explain why only 3 fatalities from bus collisions are listed on TfL’s Bus Safety Dashboard for calendar year 2022 when analysis of the Excel spreadsheet data from TfL’s Bus Safety Data Release documents 6 deaths from bus collisions for the period 1 January to 30 September 2022?

Retention Bonuses and Bus Driver Covid-19 Deaths

  • Reference: 2023/0919
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
Do you know if any the London bus drivers who received a retention bonus under your Mayor’s Decision 2592, taken on 2 March 2020, and in advance of the scheduled election, later died of Covid-19? If so, how many?

Lack of Toilet Dignity for London Bus Drivers: Confidentiality of Route Risk Assessment Information

  • Reference: 2023/0918
  • Question by: Keith Prince
  • Meeting date: 23 February 2023
In your response to question 2022/2673, you refused my request to release 'Route Risk Assessment Information' for the 175 bus routes you confirmed lacked toilet dignity because of ‘confidentiality’ and ‘commercial reasons’. Can you confirm if any of these 'Route Risk Assessments' even mention the lack of bus drivers’ toilets as a risk? If not, how can this key safety performance information qualify as a commercial secret?
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