The safety of buses has deteriorated in the last year. The number
of collisions involving buses has increased in recent years.
There were 4,297 injuries by the end of Q3 2015/16, compared with
4,196 over the same period the year before (an increase of 2.5
per cent).
- · Why
aren’t bus drivers first-aid trained?
- · Why
doesn’t TfL have targets to improve bus safety?
- · How is
TfL making incident investigations more rigorous and transparent?
- · How
does TfL ensure that all incidents are properly managed, reported
and investigated?
- · Are
bus drivers comfortable with the incident reporting process?
The London Assembly Transport
Committee meets tomorrow to
consider the safety record of London’s buses and what can be done
to improve it. The guests are:
-
Gareth Powell, Director of TfL Strategy and
Contracted Services, TfL
-
Jane Lupson, Bus Collision Reduction Programme
Manager, TfL
-
Tony Wilson, Managing Director, London &
Surrey, Abellio
-
Wayne King, Regional Coordinating Officer,
Unite
-
Paul Russell, Head of CIRAS (Confidential
Incident Reporting and Analysis System)
-
Sarah Hope, Victim's Support Consultant for
TfL and Founder of the Sarah Hope Line and Elizabeth's Legacy
of Hope
The meeting will take place
on Thursday, 02 February from
10:00am in The
Chamber at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London
SE1).
