Tom Kearney
@comadad.bsky.social
London resident investigating Transport for London’s ‘Safety Scandal’. Blog: www.saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com
#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...
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...
September 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#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...
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!
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Great news from the London bus safety front. | Michael Liebreich
Great news from the London bus safety front.
Last week, during the hot weather, drivers recorded cab temperatures of over 40C.
Caroline Russell, Green London Assembly Member raised this with the Com...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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.
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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...
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Great news from the London bus safety front. | Michael Liebreich
Great news from the London bus safety front.
Last week, during the hot weather, drivers recorded cab temperatures of over 40C.
Caroline Russell, Green London Assembly Member raised this with the Com...
www.linkedin.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mliebr...
Reposted by Tom Kearney
#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...
for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...
Mayor of London doesn't know how many people killed by TfL Buses in 2024? Keith Prince AM 3Jul25
YouTube video by Tom Kearney
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July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#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...
for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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 ?
July 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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 ?
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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.
July 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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.
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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...
"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...
content.tfl.gov.uk
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
"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...
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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...
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
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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...
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
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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?
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...
Mayor of London doesn't know how many people killed by TfL Buses in 2024? Keith Prince AM 3Jul25
YouTube video by Tom Kearney
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July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#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...
for alerting Sadiq Khan & TfL Commissioner to current estimated total—16—calculated from data on TfL Website.🔍🧮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qv...
Reposted by Tom Kearney
I support safe buses in London and good working conditions for bus drivers. Do you?
saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...
saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...
London's Franchised Bus Operation: "Institutionally Unsafe" at any Speed — Guest Post by Michael Liebreich, former TfL Board Director and Safety Panel Chair
Michael Liebreich stopping traffic at London Bus Drivers' Bill of Rights March to Parliament Square (29 January 2025) Are you a Londoner? D...
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February 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I support safe buses in London and good working conditions for bus drivers. Do you?
saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...
saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2025/02/lond...
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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/...
New safety fears after 71 hit by London buses at crossings in 2 years
New concerns about road safety emerged today as dozens of people were revealed to have been hit by London buses at pedestrian crossings.
www.standard.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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/...
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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.
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Michael Liebreich on LinkedIn: Are you a Londoner? Do you ever come to London on business or for leisure,…
Are you a Londoner? Do you ever come to London on business or for leisure, or as a tourist? Then this post is for you.
You might find the sight of a red…
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February 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
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Bus journey numbers have been dropping under Sadiq Khan. Journeys down, deaths up.
February 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Bus journey numbers have been dropping under Sadiq Khan. Journeys down, deaths up.
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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...
February 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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...
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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...
February 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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...
How safe are London buses? 93 people killed in 'preventable' collisions since 2016
TfL and mayor urged to introduce ‘bill of rights’ to improve working conditions for bus drivers
www.standard.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#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
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#LondonBusWatch #StopKillingBusDrivers TfL Bus Drivers' "Bill of Rights" Protest - 29 January 2025
YouTube video by Tom Kearney
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February 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#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
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Are London's buses safe?
www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-buse...
@londonermag.bsky.social
@comadad.bsky.social
@mliebreich.bsky.social
@jeremyvine.bsky.social
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@londonermag.bsky.social
@comadad.bsky.social
@mliebreich.bsky.social
@jeremyvine.bsky.social
The Londoner
London's new quality newspaper
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January 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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...
#CultureofLies - Mayor of London Gaslights Keith Prince AM about TfL 2024 Bus Safety Performance
YouTube video by Tom Kearney
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December 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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...
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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.
There are many ups and downs, but I genuinely don’t think that safety is one of them.
How Much Does Franchising Cost? — Freewheeling
Bus franchising is seen as the answer, but it's not free. How much does it cost, and what does it solve?
www.freewheeling.info
November 15, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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.
There are many ups and downs, but I genuinely don’t think that safety is one of them.
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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
November 15, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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
Reposted by Tom Kearney
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.”
“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.”
TfL: Accidents not all unique, crash victims say
Sally Sivas, whose friend died in a bus crash, is one of three people calling for improved safety.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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.”
“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.”