• Reference: 2019/19598
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Analysis of TfL’s July, September and October 2017 “Lessons Learned” reports released under Question 2017/4209 based on data taken from bus operator NIMI (Notification and Investigation of Major Incidents) submissions reveals that over 90% of the investigations of KSI collisions between pedestrians/cyclists and buses resulted in an “unexplained” result. Do you have confidence that bus operators are competently investigating KSI crashes involving their buses?

• Reference: 2019/19597
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Further to your response to Question 2019/17345, you stated: “That the main cause of NIMs was due to collisions with pedestrians, which caused 36 NIMIs”. A review of TfL’s bus safety data shows 58 bus collisions with pedestrians which resulted in KSIs. Can you explain why TfL reported 58 KSIs from bus collisions involving pedestrians, but only 36 NIMIs were produced by the bus operators?

• Reference: 2019/19596
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

In your response to Question 2019/17345 you report that bus operators only filed 144 NIMI (Notification into a Major Investigation) reports in 2018 when an analysis of TfL’s bus safety data for the same period shows 756 KSI resulting from bus safety incidents. Can you explain this huge difference?

• Reference: 2019/19595
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

How long would it take TfL to implement a user charge on the Blackwall Tunnel, if you instructed them to do so immediately?

• Reference: 2019/19594
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Has TfL made any estimate of the minimum level of toll that would be needed to fully remove congestion at the Blackwall Tunnel? If so, how would this toll compare to the proposed tool in the ‘assessed scheme’ of the Silvertown Tunnel project. Has any assessment also been made of the level of re-routing that tolling on either crossings would create?

• Reference: 2019/19593
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Unlike the Rotherhithe pedestrian and cycle bridge the Silvertown road tunnel was not set out in your 2016 manifesto. Considering the delays that are already taking place in commencing the Silvertown Tunnel will you consider asking TfL to delay signing any contract to build Silvertown until after the 2020 mayoral election to ensure that the people who will pay for the tunnel, and who will have to live with it, get a say on whether it is built or not?

• Reference: 2019/19592
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

A constituent has asked me to raise the following question: “Given that, in its initial examination of options for the Silvertown crossing, TfL falsely concluded that it was not possible for a charge-only scheme to fully remove congestion at Blackwall - and therefore did not examine this option in detail - will you now fully evaluate (in terms of value for money, air quality improvement, and carbon reduction) the option of implementing the minimum charge at Blackwall necessary to remove congestion, and investing the toll income in schemes that improve health, reduce air pollution, and reduce carbon emissions - and...

• Reference: 2019/19591
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Following the delays to the opening of Silvertown Tunnel will you now reconsider your refusal to implement and evaluate an experimental toll at Blackwall Tunnel before moving forward with the Silvertown scheme?

• Reference: 2019/19590
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 17 October 2019

Has TfL investigated whether implementing a toll on the Blackwall tunnel could also improve resilience by preventing blockages by, for example, preventing over-height vehicles from registering for the toll system?

• Reference: 2019/17347
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 12 September 2019

On 25 July 2019 during Boris Johnson’s first speech as the country’s prime minister, he vowed to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers to ‘make our streets safer’. The recruitment drive will begin this month and Mr Johnson said he wants it completed within three years. Many of these officers will be recruited into the Metropolitan Police. Given the current level of recruitment required to address existing staff turnover, is this target realistic?