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Removal of "Priority 1 Issues" from Fatigue Audit IA 17780

  • Reference: 2019/17338
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
Further to the documents you sent me from Question 2019/12001, I note that the 11 July 2017 Version of IA 17780 listed "Priority 1 issues" in the Executive Summary, stated: • Tram Operations Limited (TOL) management of driver’s hours of work, and the roster design, do not consider fatigue risk factors or reference industry good practice. • TOL’s fatigue awareness training for managers and supervisors does not include factors that increase fatigue or how to recognise fatigue in others. • TOL has no formal process for determining when a fatigue risk analysis should be carried out or reviewed. These priority...

Measures to Improve Fatigue Risk Management put in place by First Group TOL after 9 November 2016 and before 19 May 2017

  • Reference: 2019/17337
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
Further to my unanswered Question 2019/8807 from 16 May 2019, a news report published shortly after showed a tram driver filmed asleep at the controls on 19 May 2017. In response a First Group Representative was quoted as saying ""Over the past few months we have put in place additional measures to increase awareness of fatigue amongst our drivers, including individual briefings by our management, and we will continue to reinforce this." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sadiq-khan-croydon-tram…. What “additional measures” were put in place to increase awareness of fatigue amongst its drivers after 9 November 2016 and before 19 May 2017?

TfL Decision to Increase the Speed Limits on the Croydon Tram

  • Reference: 2019/17336
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
In the week after the Croydon Tram crash in November 2016, the Guardian published an article which alleged "Many speed restrictions on the network were lifted by Transport for London when it replaced tracks after bringing the route under its control in 2008, 10 years after it first opened. " https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/10/croydon-tram-crash-poli…. Can you provide any background documentation about that decision, where the speeds were increased, who had the responsibility for making that decision and what actions were taken to ensure the increase in tram speeds would be monitored for safety?

Updated International Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) Data

  • Reference: 2019/17335
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
The IBBG Data displayed on the TfL website only goes up to 2015. Can you provide updated presentations which show London’s performance relative to other IBBG members for 2016, 2017 and 2018?

2018 Notification and Investigation of Major Incidents (NIMI) Reports by Bus Operator

  • Reference: 2019/17334
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
Please show the total number of NIMI Reports submitted by bus operators in 2018 broken down by each bus operator.

Notification and Investigation of Major Incidents (NIMI) Reports submitted by London Bus Operators in 2018 (2)

  • Reference: 2019/17333
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
During the calendar year of 2018, how many major incident investigation reports (as per the NIMI Process) were submitted by London’s bus operators to TfL?

Updating Bus Operator Contracts to include Safety

  • Reference: 2019/17332
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
Further to your responses to Questions 2017/3858 and 2017/3859, on 1 February 2016, the Mayor's "world leading" Bus Safety Programme stated that: "over the next three months TfL will be updating their bus contracting system and will develop incentives to encourage an even greater focus on safety." https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2016/february/mayor-la… On 10 July 2016 (Question 2016/2455) you stated that changes to contracts had been pushed back to December 2017. On 29 August 2019 TfL announced: "Rigorous fatigue risk management systems will be required for any company to operate London buses under new contracts next year.” Does that mean Londoners will have to...

Gender profile of private hire drivers

  • Reference: 2019/17331
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
Please publish the current statistics that TfL holds on the gender basis of currently licensed private hire drivers in London.

TfL private hire consultation

  • Reference: 2019/17330
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
A year after TfL’s consultation ended on improving private hire safety what steps have been taken to improve public safety?

Silvertown Tunnel (2)

  • Reference: 2019/17329
  • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
  • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
A constituent has asked me to raise this following question: "We note that TfL has not analysed in detail the possibility of tolling the Blackwall tunnel sufficiently to remove congestion entirely as an alternative to building the Silvertown Tunnel and tolling both tunnels. Will the Mayor now do a full analysis of this option, and a cost/benefit comparison with the proposed scheme - which comparison should also look at the benefits from spending toll income on carbon reduction and air quality initiatives, such as investment in public transport, cycling and walking, rather than building the tunnel, as well as the...
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