• Reference: 2021/3722
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

In your rejection of Question 2021/2856, you offer your “Vision Zero” approach as obviating the need for an independent investigation of the safety performance of TfL’s contracted bus operation as recently requested by GMB Union. Based on the facts that— Your response to Question 2020/3828 reveals that Imperial College’s International Bus Benchmarking Group Data shows that London has consistently ranked in the lower third of its ‘world city peers’ for Pedestrian Deaths from Bus Crashes over the five year period 2015-2019; Analysis of TfL’s own bus fatality data since 2007 shows that – even though the DfT’s public data shows...

• Reference: 2021/3721
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 18 March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRsSBpHzX0&t=9s), I heard the Deputy Mayor for Transport recite a phrase that TfL “left no stone unturned” in its efforts to protect bus drivers from Covid-19 Risks. TfL’s then Director for Buses Claire Mann used the same phrase when TfL announced its evidence-free policy of “Middle-Door Boarding” on 17 April 2020 (cf. https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/april/tfl-introdu…). How can you reconcile TfL officers’ repeated use of “No Stone Unturned” with TfL’s failure (a) to collect bus depot Covid-19 infection rates until October 2020 (cf.FOI-2119-2021), (b) to keep and review copies of Bus Company Covid-19 Depot Risk Assessments (cf. Question 2021/0121) and...

• Reference: 2021/3720
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Do you accept that your refusal to respond to Question 2021/1984, which reasonably asked for copies of all communications (emails, letters, hand-written notes) associated with TfL’s “new reporting procedure” for First Group TOL’s reporting of safety incidents implemented after the end of November 2020, is in contravention of s45(3) of the GLA Act 1999?

• Reference: 2021/3719
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Further to your responses to Questions 2021/1968 and 2021/2360, can you update your response to FOI-2119-2021 and provide me with “Covid-19 bus drivers garage by garage” from January 2021 to August 2021?

• Reference: 2021/3718
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 29 July, Unite’s new General Secretary Sharon Graham told LBC’s Iain Dale that she asked both you and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham “to do something” regarding Unite’s dispute with Go Ahead Northwest, but you both refused. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzcNBrZemw) What were you asked by Sharon Graham “to do”? Please provide me with any written evidence of Sharon Graham’s request and any internal and external discussion of it and evidence of your response.

• Reference: 2021/3717
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Further to your response to Question 2021/1959, did TfL commission its first-ever “research” on the safety of Remote Sign-on to assist Unite the Union or Bus Contractor Metroline?

• Reference: 2021/3716
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Do you accept that your response to Question 2021/0124 that TfL has no written record of “debate over [Covid-19] interventions that were not part of PHE advice” (as requested in Question 2020/2694) can be interpreted as TfL actively obstructing any future independent enquiries on the deaths of London Bus Drivers from Covid-19?

• Reference: 2021/3715
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

A 23 July letter from the Deputy Mayor for Transport to a London bus driver clearly states “the scaling back of safety visits was not a decision that was taken lightly” but TfL’s communications appended to Question 2020/1727 show no evidence that any such decision was taken at all. Accordingly, please provide me with all written communication – emails, handwritten notes, decision memorandums – relating directly to TfL’s decision to scale back TfL Staff safety visits to bus depots.

• Reference: 2021/3714
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Why has this obvious Covid-19 risk factor for bus drivers not been remedied over a year after the pandemic and over three years after you committed to solve the problem? (cf. https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/1765 and https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/1764)

• Reference: 2021/3713
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

On 22 July, a bus driver named “Jason” called into LBC’s Speak to Sadiq to complain that London Bus Driver Cabs lacked air conditioning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi0_JvKUv6E&t=3s). The response you gave the Bus Driver was nearly identical to one that that you gave a bus driver named “Yazu” on the same show about the same issue on 27 July 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXdQmT3zoLg). How do you explain the persistence of complaints regarding this systemic problem with the lack of Air Conditioning on London Buses noting Unite the Union’s 20 November 2020 announcement 'New London bus air conditioning system a major victory in driver Covid...