#VisionZeroLDN LAST DAY of Month & TfL hasn't yet published its ‘Casualties in Greater London’ factsheet @london.gov.uk promised @neilgarratt.bsky.social "in September". Is TfL still 'Cooking the Books' on Bus Fatals🤔? @rosslydall.bsky.social @adamtoms.bsky.social london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

Former TfL Board Member (2012-18) & Board Safety Panel Chair (2016-18) @mliebreich.bsky.social has always spoken truth to power: and his post certainly resonates.

Great news from the London bus safety front. Last week, as drivers reported cab temperatures of over 40C, TfL Commissioner Andy Lord finally said: "If any of the air cooling or air conditioning, is not serviceable, the bus should not be taken into service." Bingo! www.linkedin.com/posts/mliebr...

#LondonBusWatch @london.gov.uk doesn't know how many people have been killed by TfL Buses in 2024? HT> @londonassembly.bsky.social Member Keith Prince for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...

I have recently reported ( to met with video) very dangerous close bus passes ( often followed by a punishment pass) I wonder if theyre acted upon or even make their way into the @tfl figures ?

I bet you get a 'we cannot reveal individual consequences due to privacy laws' type response. Interestingly, the one time a TfL contractor in a van tried to run me down, I got the same thing, but then a phone call from the contracting company saying 'we fired him'. Or to answer your question: no.

Even 'official' data tells a really difficult story. content.tfl.gov.uk/vision-zero-... p60/61. "Buses & coaches 4.53 times more likely to be involved in... fatality or serious injury to a pedestrian relative to their share of traffic." NB 'KSIs' more reliable statistically than just fatalities...

For cycling that's a mere 1.75 times, but that's the highest ratio of modes. For walking, motorcycles are marginally more over-represented at 4.7 times. Given the number of coaches on London's roads and involved in collisions, safe to say buses are very over-represented in walking & cycling KSIs...

Reality is then that there is copious evidence on how badly buses & by extension TfL are failing on Vision Zero. The holy grail TfL are reaching for appears to be 'intelligent speed assist' but I do not buy its vital importance in these circumstances - buses don't generally go way over 20 here...

Once again, TfL Buses lobby appear to be opposing, delaying, fretting about basic safety measures to separate buses from cycling & indeed doing little to promote bus priority measures generally. Where are all the circulating cycling stage junctions, the bus lanes that go to junctions, the bus gates?

#LondonBusWatch @london.gov.uk doesn't know how many people have been killed by TfL Buses in 2024? HT> @londonassembly.bsky.social Member Keith Prince for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...

I support safe buses in London and good working conditions for bus drivers. Do you? saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...

If you scan the news you will see TfL buses frequently mount the pavement, plough into buildings or hit passers-by with wing mirrors. At least 35 people are knocked over each year on pedestrian crossings, though the figure could be much higher because of poor data. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

London's bus system is "institutionally unsafe". In 2024 there were 16 preventable deaths involving TfL buses - the highest number since 2009, despite bus journeys declining 17% during that period. What can YOU do about it? A lot, it turns out. www.linkedin.com/posts/mliebr...

Bus journey numbers have been dropping under Sadiq Khan. Journeys down, deaths up.

More people were killed on or by buses in London in 2024 than any year since 2009. That's the outcome of London's "institutionally unsafe" franchising model, which the Government wants to roll out across the country. Support the Bus Drivers Bill of Rights! www.change.org/p/mayor-of-l...

And that is where I'm most fed up. While folks like @comadad.bsky.social keep telling us all clearly what the evidence is on bus safety & how to improve safety, anti-floating stop orgs keep openly saying basically 'go cycle in the street' as an inclusive answer. It's utter rubbish & has to stop...

#LondonBusWatch Report by @rosslydall.bsky.social @eveningstandard.bsky.social re @transportforlondon.bsky.social Bus Drivers #BillofRights Petition presented by @carolinerussell.bsky.social at @londonassembly.bsky.social last Thursday. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

#StopKillingBusDrivers VIDEO On 29 January, 100s of Transport for London Bus Drivers stopped traffic in Central London to demand Mayor Sadiq Khan write #BillofRights into TfL Bus Contracts youtu.be/bxE3QFQQQQY

Are London's buses safe? www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-buse... @londonermag.bsky.social @comadad.bsky.social @mliebreich.bsky.social @jeremyvine.bsky.social

After 15% YoY increase in 2023, TfL Bus Collision Deaths increased by 25% YoY in 2024: but those facts—supported by Data published on TfL Website & by MSM—don’t stop Sadiq Khan from Gaslighting the London Assembly. Who’s gonna call out the Mayor’s &TfL’s #CultureofLies? m.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvJ...

I’ve just this evening posted a long article on the pros and cons of the model, in the context of Manchester: www.freewheeling.info/blog/how-muc... There are many ups and downs, but I genuinely don’t think that safety is one of them.

I’ve not looked properly at what action is being taken in TfL on this. It’s clear that a commitment to Vision Zero means, regardless of how safe buses are compared to private vehicles, we need to treat every death & serious injury as avoidable, investigate the cause and learn from it

TfL responded to some of these concerns in this article. “Our thoughts are with all of the families affected through either loss or injury on the transport network… It's really important that we learn lessons from incidents that occur and we reach out to families to understand their perspectives.”

There’s growing concern with how TfL has treated crash victims and approach to meeting its Vision Zero bus goal Here’s Camilla Cavendish in the FT calling for a review into the ‘systemic problems’ behind these tragedies (As with all coverage of road deaths and serious injuries, it’s a tough read)

@ftopinion: Tom Kearne was on a central London pavement when he was whacked on the head so hard that he fell to the ground, spent weeks in a coma, and only just survived. Had he been mugged? No. He’d been hit by the wing mirror of a London bus, says Camilla Cavendish

“Transport for London (TfL) is unable to locate specific minutes for this particular item.” — Given the fact that he admits London is the only city in the world that requires footwell cameras for its Bus Drivers, the Mayor’s response to this is really astonishing. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

"It's about Time" —my few words spoken at the London Bus Drivers' "End TfL Safety Scandal" March & Rally 5 November 2024 saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2024/11/its-...

Lord Blunkett injured after falling into gap at Westminster tube station

I've been trying to write this article for the past 6 weeks, but sadly it was spiked. Well done #CamillaCavendish and @data.ft.com @mliebreich.bsky.social for getting it out there.

#LondonBusWatch Please sign this Petition launched by London Bus Drivers Mayor of London! Write the Bus Drivers Bill of Rights into Bus Contracts NOW! www.change.org/p/mayor-of-l...

#LondonBusWatch 15 November 2024 - MyLondon - Adam Toms “TfL told to change 'lethal' London bus driver contracts to 'save lives’” www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

86 people died or were seriously injured in bus collisions in London between December 2023 and March 2024. That’s an incredible number and fundamentally worse than other public transport modes and other cities. Camilla Cavendish looks at an unsafe model in the @financialtimes.com. on.ft.com/48Tz5y7

#LondonBusWatch 15 November 2024 - Financial Times - Camilla Cavendish “London bus crashes are the result of an unsafe model Individual tragedies indicate a systemic problem that Whitehall needs to look at fast”