• Reference: 2022/2996
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

After a recent 3-week closure of the Woolwich Ferry due to “technical difficulties”, when can Londoners expect a reliable service?

• Reference: 2022/2995
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Based on your lack of answers to date of questions 2022/1633 and 2022/2161, is it the case that the Bus Driver Health and Well-Being Programme is not a priority?

• Reference: 2022/2994
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Following up on your responses to Questions 2021/0559 and 2021/1980, how can you explain why TfL is nine months behind in publishing its Quarterly Bus Safety Data?

• Reference: 2022/2993
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

On 28 July 2022, a bus driver named ‘Kevin’ called into LBC’s "Speak to Sadiq” show to complain directly to you that London bus drivers’ cabs lacked air conditioning (https://youtu.be/8L1T_JzYwVg). The response you gave the bus driver was nearly identical to the answers you gave to a (a) bus driver named “Jason” on the same program on 22 July 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi0_JvKUv6E&t=3s; and (b) bus driver “Yazu” on the same show on 27 July 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXdQmT3zoLg). Taking into account your response to Question 2021/3713, how can you explain (a) the persistence of bus drivers’ evidenced complaints about the lack of air...

• Reference: 2022/2992
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

In your response to Question 2017/0037, you stated "TfL independently assures the condition of the bus fleet through engineering quality monitoring. This involves monthly inspections, covering around a quarter of the fleet each year and helps to ensure vehicles are fit for purpose regardless of age, make and model.” How can you, therefore, explain the fact that bus drivers have, for years, consistently provided evidence that air conditioning does not work on many buses during the summer months?

• Reference: 2022/2991
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Your response to Question 2022/1637 states: "Two Directors at Transport for London, who were displaced, were given the opportunity on a closed listed basis to apply for the position of Director of Safety Health and Environment.” Please provide me with: (a) documentary evidence detailing TfL’s official policy for creating new senior closed recruitment positions; and (b) TfL’s legal opinion that this recruitment process complied with both TfL policy and employment law requirements.

• Reference: 2022/2990
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Please provide me with (a) the Professional Safety Qualifications (e.g., Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) and Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) accreditations) of the following TfL executives; and (b) the date when they achieved the qualification and when they were appointed. Chief Safety, Health and Environment Officer Chief Operating Officer Head of Bus Business Development Director of Buses

• Reference: 2022/2989
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Based on your response to Question 2022/1629, bus operators Metroline and Tower Transit show, respectively, 27% and 11% of bus driver deaths from Covid when they account for, also respectively, only 16% and 5% of the total TfL bus driver workforce. How do you explain the fact that these two bus operators represent the only two of ten bus operators which showed a Covid-19 deathrate higher—in these cases, significantly higher—than would be predicted by the percentage of their bus drivers in TfL’s total bus driver workforce? As a result of this alarming trend, has TfL singled out Metroline and Tower...

• Reference: 2022/2988
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Further to your response to Question 2022/1629, please provide me with a breakdown of all the bus workers who died from Covid-19 by bus contractor during the period March 2020 - August 2022.

• Reference: 2022/2987
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

The "Fatal Accident Investigations” information published on TfL’s website shows 81 people killed in Bus Safety Incidents since January 2015. Over that period TfL only commissioned one independent investigation after a fatal bus crash, that involving a vehicle and an R11 Bus operated by Go Ahead which resulted in the bus driver being killed. Can you provide documentary evidence why this crash warranted an independent investigation commissioned by TfL when 64 other fatal bus crashes warranted none?