• Reference: 2025/0586
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver's right "when seriously ill and covered by a doctor's note, to not be harassed into coming into work until fit to do so" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• Reference: 2025/0585
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver's right “to report safety concerns without fear of retribution from TfL or employers" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• Reference: 2025/0584
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver's right to "clean, serviced toilet and rest facilities on all bus routes" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• Reference: 2025/0583
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver's right "to drive a safe and well-maintained vehicle" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• Reference: 2025/0582
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver's right to a "to a decent and proper rest break in the working day" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• Reference: 2025/0581
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 25 February 2025

Please will you provide me with (a) credible documentary evidence of the "existing agreements, actions or legislation" which guarantee a London bus driver’s right to a safe work schedule without any forced overtime or loss of pay" and (b) a list of specific remedies that are currently available to any London bus driver if he or she is faced with violations of that right?

• 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?