• Reference: 2025/0580
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Following up on your response to question 2025/0089, if, "TfL is not planning to incorporate the ‘Bus Drivers’ Bill of Rights’ directly into TfL’s bus contract" because "many aspects are already covered by existing agreements, actions or legislation”, if you, as TfL Chair, believe these “rights” already exist in law and/or London-wide agreements and/or actions, what would be the harm of obligating TfL's bus operators to honour those "rights" as a condition of every bus services contract?

• Reference: 2025/0579
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

According to your responses to questions 2016/4087 and 2016/4088, "all buses contracted to operate TfL routes have bridge warning systems fitted as standard. These alert the driver within 90 and then 50 metres of a structure, using a combination of GPS and map software within the bespoke iBus monitoring system." Given that "only national legislation would ensure all vehicles were fitted with warning systems" across the United Kingdom, will you commit to writing to the Minister of State for Transport— a former TfL Commissioner—requesting him to sponsor national legislation that would ensure that all buses in the United Kingdom are...

• Reference: 2025/0578
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Updating your response to question 2016/4087, please will you provide details of 'de-roofing' and similar crashes involving buses and bridges which have been reported and investigated across the GLA area from 1 January 2016 to the present, listing the dates, locations, operator details, injuries, and resulting actions taken to prevent any future crashes?

• Reference: 2025/0577
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

A 5 February 2025 report by the Evening Standard "London road deaths 'crisis' as number of pedestrians killed in collisions soars 25 per cent" cited the 3 August 2024 death of a nine-year-old who was killed by a double decker bus as she was riding her bike on the pavement in Watling Street, Bexleyheath. For the period 9 May 2016 to 31 December 2024, how many people have been killed or seriously injured as the result of bus collisions on the pavement or footpath?

• Reference: 2025/0576
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Out of the 120 ‘Preventable Bus Safety Deaths’ that have occurred over the period Q1 2014-Q2 2024 that TfL has published in its "Bus Injury Details [Q1 2014 - Q2 2024]" spreadsheet, how many have not been reported by TfL in either its STATS19 reporting or its annual "Casualties in London" publications?

• Reference: 2025/0575
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

How do you reconcile your response to question 2025/0123 attributing the "cyber incident" to preventing TfL from updating its "Bus Injury Details [Q1 2014 - Q2 2024]” spreadsheet after Q2 2024, with the fact that TfL has published a "Road Fatalities in London since 2019" spreadsheet on its website which is (a) current until 31 December 2024 and (b) provides clear evidence of at least fifteen fatal preventable ‘Bus Safety Incidents’ (12 collisions, 3 onboard falls), 7 of which occurred after Q2 2024?

• Reference: 2025/0574
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

How many buses in TfL's contracted bus fleet have "blind spots" that, in order to be driven safely, require the bus driver to move his head and upper body to look around it' are present in TfL's contracted bus fleet. Please identify the make & model of these buses and the operator and route associated with them.

• Reference: 2025/0573
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What is the make and model of the Go Ahead London route 291 bus that was involved in the 11 September 2021 fatal collision? How many of this exact make and model of bus with "blind spots" that, in order to be driven safely, require the bus driver 'to move his head and upper body to look around it' are present in TfL's contracted bus fleet? Please identify the operator and routes affected.

• Reference: 2025/0572
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

On 27 January 2025, a 76-year-old driver of a Route 291 bus operated by Go Ahead London was found guilty of ‘Careless Driving’ for killing an 83-year-old pedestrian in Greenwich on 11 September 2021. The prosecution successfully argued that 'a pillar inside the bus created a "blind spot" [that, in order for the bus driver to see a pedestrian crossing in front] required the driver to move his head and upper body to look around it'. Following up your response to question 2025/0119, shouldn't the Direct Vision Requirement in TfL's ‘Bus Safety Standard’ have eliminated this obviously lethal working environment...

• Reference: 2025/0571
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

What impact is the forthcoming end of the EV exemption from the Congestion Charge, adding millions of pounds onto the costs of operating car clubs in London, having on an already tight margin business in the capital?