Bus Safety

Neil Garratt AM proposed, and Siân Berry AM seconded the following motion: 

“This Assembly strongly supports the Mayor’s aspiration for no one to be killed in or by a London bus by 2030, and for all deaths and serious injuries from road collisions to be eliminated from London's streets by 2041, and stands with all victims and their families. 
 
However, this Assembly is very concerned that this aspiration seems unlikely to be met on current trends given Transport for London’s 7th September 2023 Bus Safety strategy showed more people were killed or seriously injured by London’s buses in 2022 than in 2016 when the current Mayor took office. In addition, the Mayor’s own target for a 70 per cent reduction in people killed or seriously injured in or by a bus by 2022 was not met and the current reduction from the 2005-09 baseline is 54 per cent. 
 
This Assembly was therefore encouraged by the Mayor’s promise to “take away the idea” that the TfL Commissioner should include the number of those hospitalised by or on TfL buses in the Commissioner’s Report to the TfL Board. 
 
This Assembly is concerned that, without significant improvement, a continuation of the current trend on bus-related KSIs (killed or seriously injured) would mean the Mayor missing his target. This Assembly calls on the Mayor to give an update to Londoners on how Vision Zero for London’s buses will now be reached, and any further interim targets. 
 
As an immediate step, this Assembly further believes that the Commissioner should include both the number of bus-related KSIs and significantly more detail on those KSIs in the Commissioner’s report so that the TfL Board is aware of both the level and trend in bus KSI data, and thus better able to do its job in holding Transport for London to account.”

Following debate and upon being put to a vote, the motion was agreed unanimously.