- Reference: 2024/1534
- Question by: Keith Prince
- Meeting date: 23 May 2024
While your 2024 election manifesto fails to contain the words “bus drivers” or “pedestrians”, as it did more than once in 2021, I note your commitment to “launch a new plan to cut bus waiting times”. According to TfL's published data, 2023's 28,114 bus collisions (an average of 77 per day) represents an increase of 10 percent over 2022 and the highest number of recorded bus crashes since 2017. Given that we've seen a decrease in total bus mileage, bus fleet numbers, bus drivers, average bus speeds and bus passengers during this period – all trends which would tend to...