TBH I knew there would come a day when, faced with so much publicly-available evidence, someone high up at TfL would finally crack and reveal TfL Surface Transport’s worst-kept secret: Safety has never been TfL’s priority on London Buses. But, I never thought it’d be the Commissioner! 😳👏

👀 via @mliebreich.bsky.social TfL Board Member (2012-18) & Safety Panel Chair (2016-18) "based on TfL-sourced Data, Trends in TfL Bus Safety Performance (2007-25) 👉
✅Clear progress under Johnson vs Livingstone
🦠Khan hit his #VisionZero trend only during Pandemic
😱2024 was WORST YEAR since 2009”

2024 was the worst year ever for preventable @tflbus.bsky.social Bus Safety Performance ever under #VisionZero @mayoroflondon.bsky.social bringing current total number of preventable #BusSafety deaths under his watch as TfL chair to 93, 70 from Bus Collisions. “The Trend is NOT our friend.”

Based on @rosslydall.bsky.social excellent analysis of @transportforlondon.bsky.social only published ‘24 Fatal Data, it appears about 1/3 of London’s Cycle Deaths were from TfL Bus Collisions. TfL buses constitute ca. 1% of vehicles on London’s roads at any time. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

"It was timed to commemorate the death of Kathleen Finnegan, who was killed by a London bus while crossing at Victoria Station. Driver welfare should be the cornerstone of any legislation."

"On 29 January, bus drivers marched from Victoria to Parliament to protest about driver conditions and present a petition...calling for the acceptance of a bus drivers’ bill of rights, which is about giving bus drivers the basic rights of employment..."

Might want to clarify headline @rosslydall.bsky.social: Petition & @carolinerussell.bsky.social are clear that Total Number of Bus Fatals while Sadiq Khan TfL Chair is from Preventable Bus Safety Incidents not "Collisions" as ES Headline says. 16 such Deaths in 2024. Worst Year EVER for Khan

ICYMI London Bus Drivers DEMANDING @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social write #BillofRights guaranteeing them Safe & Humane Working Conditions into TfL's Framework Bus Contract—which hasn't been changed since 1Jan16, i.e BEFORE #VisionZero Mayor was elected. Where's @unitetheunion.bsky.social been? 🤔

TfL doesn’t investigate Bus Crashes but trusts its Bus Contractors to conduct their own (w/o any requirement to share their investigations/conclusions). Result? 28000+ Bus Crashes per year including last night’s in South Norwood an exact copy of July 2015 Crash www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

#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”