• Reference: 2022/2685
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Following your refusal to provide the data I requested in question 2022/0147, will you request TfL to commission an independent analysis of whether or not failing to provide toilets to bus drivers on routes discriminates against hiring women bus drivers to work on these routes?

• Reference: 2022/2684
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Has TfL ever compared the safety performance on routes with poor toilet provision with those with adequate facilities? If not, will you request TfL to commission an independent analysis of the safety performance of bus drivers on the at least 180 bus routes that lack ‘Toilet Dignity’?

• Reference: 2022/2683
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Will you request TfL to commission an independent study to determine the long-term health effects of forcing bus drivers to work on routes without access to toilets with special attention on determining whether or not there’s an increased frequency of urinary tract infections, incontinence, kidney stones, constipation, haemorrhoids, appendicitis and colon cancer among bus drivers on routes lacking toilets?

• Reference: 2022/2682
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Please provide me with any guidance, criteria, analysis, list of principles that TfL uses to allow bus drivers to operate buses on routes without toilets. What criteria has TfL used to certify the safety of any route without adequate toilet facilities?

• Reference: 2022/2681
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

A 14 June BBC Report stated “Transport for London (TfL) said issues around toilets were taken extremely seriously and bosses would look to improve the situation.” How can you reconcile that, in my view, misleading statement with the fact that 10 routes identified as “high priority” in April 2019 remain without toilets today?

• Reference: 2022/2680
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

A 14 June BBC report quoted TfL’s Head of Bus Business Development as saying "It is a basic human right to have access to a toilet”. Please provide me with the criteria used by TfL Surface Operations to seemingly deprive Bus Drivers of a ‘basic human right’ on over 25% of London Bus Routes.

• Reference: 2022/2679
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

A 14 June BBC report quoted TfL’s Head of Bus Business Development as stating that bus drivers’ welfare was a “top priority”. How can you reconcile that statement with the fact that over 1 in 4 London bus routes don’t have toilets at both ends of the route for bus drivers?

• Reference: 2022/2678
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Of the 180 bus routes that we know from questions 2022/0787, 2022/0786 and 2021/4900 lack ‘Toilet Dignity’ for bus drivers, even after the proposed bus route changes, at least 171 bus routes—over 25% of all London bus routes—will remain with a toilet only at one end, including 10 routes considered Priority 3 and an additional 3 where “access to toilets is not available at all hours of the day”. Will you consider making immediate changes to these 171 bus routes to ensure that toilets will be made available to bus drivers at both ends?

• Reference: 2022/2677
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Correlating the list of routes being proposed to be altered/cut with routes without adequate toilet provision (provided in your responses to question 2022/0787, question 2022/0786 and question 2021/4900) shows that 3 bus routes with 1 toilet or a 150 minute round-trip between loos (“Priority 3”) are proposed to be changed, one of which (Route 328) doesn’t look like it will add a toilet and that 3 bus routes with only a toilet at one end are proposed to be changed, and 1 change (Route 3, a “Priority 3") is to another bus route (Route 87) without a toilet at one...

• Reference: 2022/2676
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

According to your response to Question 2021/4900: “there are currently three known routes – R2, 286 and 394 – where access to toilets is not available for all hours of the operating day. One of these (route 286) has a temporary toilet installed because access to the previously available facilities has not been possible due to pandemic restrictions. TfL will review access to staff facilities for route 286 when this changes. Facilities for routes R2 and 394 are currently in detailed design and, subject to funding and planning negotiations, will be built in 2022”. However, route 394 does not appear...