• Reference: 2021/2857
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Data you released in response to Question 2020/3838 showed that, when benchmarked over 5 years (2015-2019) for pedestrian deaths involving buses, Imperial College’s Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) placed London in the bottom third of its ‘world city’ peers. Further analysis of TfL’s own Bus Fatality Data since 2007 shows that – even though the Department for Transport public data shows that the presence of buses and coaches on London’s Roads (adjusted for total mileage) has declined from 3% to 1% over the period – TfL buses were involved in an average of 10% of all London Traffic Fatals (2007-2020) and...

• Reference: 2021/2856
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

On 16 July 2021, GMB Union Southern Region launched a campaign asking you “to look urgently at the private contractors delivering bus services for TfL and remove the link between punctuality and profits.” Will you appoint an independent judge-led investigation to analyse the safety implications of how TfL contracts and manages its bus contractors?

• Reference: 2021/2855
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

I have been getting reports from bus drivers that they are being forced to report to disciplinary hearings convened by their employers as a result of being absent, with a doctor’s note, with Covid-19. A recent ASLEF report confirms identical actions are being taken against Tube drivers by TfL. Can you explain the logic behind punishing bus drivers for being ill with a disease that TfL’s own UCL Phase 2 Study showed that – even after adjusting for ethnicity, age and home address – they were twice as likely to contract as the general population?

• Reference: 2021/2854
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

TfL’s UCL Phase 2 Study on Bus Driver Deaths from Covid-19 reports that bus drivers – even after adjusting for ethnicity, age and home address – were twice as likely to die from the general population during the period from March to December 2020. As TfL Chair, do you accept that TfL by (a) withdrawing its inspection staff from depots where there were infection clusters at beginning of the pandemic, (b) being unaware that bus companies were continuing to use small vehicles for ferrying bus drivers to and from their route, (c) not receiving any Covid-19 risk assessments carried out...

• Reference: 2021/2853
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

In your response to Question 2021/1985 you confirmed that the International Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) will be benchmarking London’s bus worker Covid-19 deaths against ‘world city’ peers and that TfL will receive this information in late 2021. Will you undertake to announce and publish the results of the exercise as soon as they are received?

• Reference: 2021/2852
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Are you and TfL in favour of RFID cards for the taxi trade and, if so, by what date are you aiming to introduce them?

• Reference: 2021/2851
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

The Vision Zero Action Plan hopes to reduce the likelihood of road users making mistakes or behaving in a way that is risky for themselves and other people. Has the Mayor considered an accelerometer condition of licence for private hire operators prohibiting the dispatch of customer requests to moving vehicles?

• Reference: 2021/2850
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

The Mayor has stated the advanced driving test for private hire drivers will not progress at this time. How does this sit with his Vision Zero objective?

• Reference: 2021/2849
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Given it was a promise in the Mayor’s Action Plan, why is there no separation in the reporting of personal injury collision data involving Taxi & Private Hire vehicles?

• Reference: 2021/2848
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Can the Mayor provide the most up-to-date number of how many dedicated taxi and private hire compliance officers TfL currently employs?