• 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...

• Reference: 2022/2675
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

In addition to the 175 bus routes lacking ‘Toilet Dignity’ for bus drivers that you provided in your response to question 2022/0787, your response to question 2022/0786 revealed that there are 17 bus routes with only 1 toilet and a 150 minute round-trip before the bus driver can get to a toilet, which TfL calls “Priority 3” Routes. Four of these Priority 3 Routes - Routes 3, 25, 48 and 286 - don’t appear on the list provided in your response to question 2022/0787. Why? Is a more accurate response to Question 2022/0787 be “There are a total of 179...

• Reference: 2022/2674
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Of the 175 routes identified as lacking ‘Toilet Dignity’ by you in question 2022/0787, there are 10 routes - Routes 12, 24, 124, 292, 434, 455, 468, K3, R2, R7 - which, in your April 2019 response to question 2019/6056, you identified as “High Priority” Routes 'with plans in place for toilets' . It’s been over 3 years: why are these 10 routes listed as a priority in April 2019 still being shown as lacking ‘Toilet Dignity’ in 2022? Please provide me with a detailed explanation for each of these routes.

• Reference: 2022/2673
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

For each of the routes identified in question 2022/0787, please provide me with TfL’s or its contractor’s risk assessments for each of these routes.

• Reference: 2022/2672
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

For each of the routes identified in question 2022/0787, please provide me with TfL’s estimation of the total journey time that the bus driver is required to drive a bus with no access to a toilet.

• Reference: 2022/2671
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Based on your response to question 2022/0787, we know that there at least 175 bus routes in London that have a toilet for bus drivers only at one end of the route. For each route identified in your response, please provide the name of the operator and starting date of when bus drivers no longer had access to a toilet.