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Tom Kearney

@comadad

#VisionZeroLDN THREAD 14Dec21 @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport Q&A Extracts w former @TfL Bus Driver Lorraine Robertson & @UniteLondonEast John Murphy. ENTIRE 2hr45mins here @KevinMustafa16 @therealdojj @skinnerzboy @MalLunam @BussesJames @BusSafetyRep

1. @CarolinePidgeon asks Lorraine "How successful has #VisionZeroLDN been for Bus Drivers?" Lorraine responds: "We never hear about it"

2. @NeilGarratt asks Lorraine "Where do you think #VisionZeroLDN Message is not being passed on" Lorraine: "We don't hear about it from our managers, @TfL or @unitetheunion reps, so somewhere above us. We're only bus drivers. Are we supposed to know?"

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

#StopKillingBusDrivers THREAD "@TfL downplayed #COVID19 dangers to bus, rail & tube workers in critical early months" => Important @WSWS_Updates Report @MayorofLondon @CityHallLabour hope you never read. So I'll serve it up in bitesize pieces @therealdojj wsws.org/en/articles/20…

"@TfL deliberately minimised @COVID19 threat to bus & transport workers Jan-Feb, even as @WHO instructed urgent action. New documents released in @KeithPrinceAM June MQT reveal that TfL focused on operational efficiency at the expense of workers’ lives" london.gov.uk/questions/2020…

"@TfL bosses, incl. Chief Safety, Health & Environment Officer Lilli Matson, insisting #COVID19 risk to bus, rail & tube workers was “low” and that gloves and facemasks should not be worn."

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

@therealdojj @BusSafetyRep @ShelaghFogarty @SadiqKhan @TfL @MayorofLondon Since 2017, @CarolinePidgeon & @KeithPrinceAM have been asking Mayor to open TfL's Regular, Secret, Un-minuted "Bus Operator Forum" Meetings to Public Scrutiny & have been refused every time. Here's Caroline asking & rejected by @SadiqKhan October 2017 london.gov.uk/questions/2017…

@therealdojj @BusSafetyRep @ShelaghFogarty @SadiqKhan @TfL @MayorofLondon @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM Here's Caroline asking & being rejected again in March 2018. Why? B/c "TfL & [Bus] Operators also need a forum in which they can collectively discuss commercially or operationally sensitive topics" OK. Why's Safety being discussed in SECRET? london.gov.uk/questions/2018…

@therealdojj @BusSafetyRep @ShelaghFogarty @SadiqKhan @TfL @MayorofLondon @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM Here's Keith asking & refused in Nov18 "How does this refusal to be transparent conform with the principles of Vision Zero or your pledge that you are 'determined to lead the most transparent, engaged and accessible administration London has ever seen'?" london.gov.uk/questions/2018…

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

Did Feb20 #COVID19 Scare after UK Bus Industry Conference at Westminster serve as warning to UK BusCo Executives to immediately conduct Risk Assessments & take Protective Measures like #PPENow to protect Bus Drivers? AFAIK @TfL did nothing until APRIL bbc.co.uk/news/uk-515032…

AFAIK @MayorofLondon instructed Bus Contractors to take protective action ONLY AFTER Bus Drivers started DYING and started making noise on Social Media!!!

TBH when I look at this list of #Covid19 Deaths of Bus Drivers working for @TfL ForProfit Bus Contractors, I am really shocked. Most Bus Operators part of Global Transport Giants whose owners/executives would have been well aware of what their subsidiaries were doing in Q1

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Michael Liebreich

@MLiebreich

At least 5 London bus drivers have tragically died of Covid-19. Sadiq says "TfL have ensured measures have been taken to keep staff as safe as possible", but bus drivers are contractors, not TfL staff. What did he do to ensure bus companies kept passengers and drivers safe?

https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1246698926339690496

This looks like the natural result of TfL's failure to take responsibility for safe provision of contracted services - also implicated in the Sandilands crash - which I described in my evidence to the suspended @LondonAssembly bus and tram safety enquiry:
drive.google.com/open?id=1_3RG7…

We need to know what TfL and its chair @MayorofLondon did to ensure bus companies were enforcing social distancing by drivers and passengers, cleaning vehicles, providing washing facilities and giving PPE to their drivers. These are TfL services, no use blaming government.

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

@therealdojj @NicktheFiddler @MamaMoose_Be @TfL @LondonAssembly @driverXpcv @MalLunam @BusSafetyRep @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM @SadiqKhan @Arriva_London @AbellioRailBus @RATPgroup @HackneyCT there are 10 self-evident & well-evidenced (from UK Rail, Air & Maritime Industries) #BusSafety regulatory & oversight actions Mayor could be driving as TfL Chair, but there’s no #Leadership there. Why hasn’t he embraced London Bus Driver #BillofRights? saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2019/03/lablon…

@therealdojj @NicktheFiddler @MamaMoose_Be @TfL @LondonAssembly @driverXpcv @MalLunam @BusSafetyRep @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM @SadiqKhan @Arriva_London @AbellioRailBus @RATPgroup @HackneyCT FFS Anyone could tell you letting a Bus Driver get behind the wheel of a TfL Bus on a route without a guaranteed toiled for the driver is manifestly unsafe. How can @unitetheunion sign off on any rota on any route where guaranteed toilet isn’t provided?

@therealdojj @NicktheFiddler @MamaMoose_Be @TfL @LondonAssembly @driverXpcv @MalLunam @BusSafetyRep @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM @SadiqKhan @Arriva_London @AbellioRailBus @RATPgroup @HackneyCT @unitetheunion Oh, & Lookie here: 8 of the 20 routes WITHOUT GUARANTEED 24-7 TOILETS are operated FOR PROFIT by 3 STATE-OWNED Bus Operators (ie, @AbellioLondon @Arriva_London @RATPGroup)

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

#CroydonCrash #CoverUp @MayorofLondon @ValShawcross @Heidi_LDN: Kindly note 23May18 @TfL Board Minutes don't properly reflect what @MLiebreich actually said ICYMI "3 Times on 3 Separate Occasions IA 17780 had been sent to @raibgovuk @railandroad @BTP"

Regrettably, narrative City Hall & TfL PUSHING since I exposed #CoverUp January 2018 saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2018/01/london… isn't supported by any FACTS. saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2018/08/re-tfl… @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM #CroydonCrash 7 People DIED, 62 Injured. #ShineALight NOW HT>@christianwolmar @V0LDN

In May18, I formally asked @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport to call City Hall & TfL Officials in for Formal Questioning saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-cr… Why wasn't IA 17780 sent to #CroydonCrash Investigators, Regulators & Police when it'd been sitting in Top Managers' hands for months?

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Tom Kearney

@comadad

@SadiqKhan @TfL #LondonBusWatch Reports from some Bus Depots: "A/C units being fixed" so THANK YOU for taking immediate action @MayorofLondon

https://twitter.com/unite_battersea/status/1023174691111030786?s=21

BUT as TfL Chair @Twitter reports from Bus Drivers & Volunteer Campaigners shouldn't be necessary #LeaveTheBunker @CarolineRussell

@SadiqKhan @TfL @MayorofLondon @Twitter @CarolineRussell As TfL Chair, you shouldn't have to be embarrassed by Bus Drivers calling you on @LBC @mrjamesob #SpeakToSadiq to complain about #BusSafety issue which should not exist b/c TfL's Claire Mann told @oliviat_93 "A/C required on all new buses since 2012" standard.co.uk/news/transport…

@SadiqKhan @TfL @MayorofLondon @Twitter @CarolineRussell @LBC @mrjamesob @oliviat_93 Think about it: if it wasn't for @Unite_Battersea tweeting pictures of the temperature in his bus cab on Social Media AND Bus Driver calling into #SpeakToSadiq AND Olivia's scoop in the Standard, would you—as TfL Chair—have even known about the A/C issue?