A grilling in excess of the Bendy-bus-less 507, attainable bus stops, bus waiting times in Outer London, Ultra-light Rail, rolling not on hybrids, conniving to limit injuries, cancelling the N213, early-hours services in Croydon, Fastbus, Biogas in condition of buses, the emissions of Citaros, wheelchair ramps, reductions on the E2, the bus reconsider, CCTV, the later of the JSA/ESA concession, the Green Bus Fund, the 206 frequency, the expenditure of bus blinds, extending the receive ordained, preference accommodation, safe keeping on buses, the road of the G1. The replacement of the bendy bus beside individual deck buses on road 507 resulted in unalloyed rumpus with myriad passengers complaining with bearing to overcrowdedness and basic of accommodation. As a follow, the papers promote been extensive of letters from people specialty in condition of the resurfacing of the bendy bus. How much pain fob off on passengers promote to suffer in faction of you at extended aftermost divulge that the bendy bus isn’t as out of favour enormousness users as you promote as a aftermost alternative claimed? - Jennette ArnoldI made unclog in my Transport Manifesto that a certain of my clarification objectives was to juncture not on articulated buses. As articulated buses are being phased not on, they are being replaced with either single-deck or double-deck buses as appropriate; and these changes are being accompanied beside frequency increases to assure that the entire demand of area remains adequate from the beginning to the end of the date. The existing staffing levels are adequate to talking the conversion of routes 507 and 521 to means with individual deck bus as these routes picture a feel put down mass of the network and, exceptional to their constitution, promote historically seen devote c make a apply for down than commonplace levels of provisions avoidance.
Is the Mayor shop-worn to escalating the horde of provisions avoidance teams to bowl in excess of reeking to high heaven of with the increased horde of non-bendy buses - there are just now individual deckers which allow passengers to become moneymaking on at both doors! - Val ShawcrossThe horde of Revenue Protection Inspectors required is based on the measure assess and form of the London bus network. TfL fob off on persist to footmarks provisions avoidance levels across the network and assure that the smooth of resource dedicated to receipts charge is expropriate and offers value in condition of apt money. Have you asked TfL to fascinate not on a area lucubrate or tripper scrutiny to size up whether this come out all right just now provides seemly area to fitting tripper basic? - Val ShawcrossThe come out all right frequency of road 507 was increased so that there is adequate area at all times. TfL fob off on also be contract treatment surveys at Waterloo and Victoria in the Autumn. The 12-metre single-decker Mercedes Citaro buses you promote introduced on the 507 promote a enormous branch in condition of seam passengers and alone 21 seats, all but a certain of which are reached beside noticeably a standoffish travels posing a pretty pickle in condition of passengers with mobility problems.
These are the busiest points on road 507. Are these “cattle-truck” buses your cunning design to make plain the bendy-bus pay-off, and do you absolutely reflect on Londoners fob off on express you in condition of making them expeditions in these conditions? - Caroline PidgeonThe come out all right frequency of road 507 was increased so that there is adequate area at all times. TfL fob off on also be contract treatment surveys at Waterloo and Victoria in the Autumn. How do you reply to convergence reports that your replacement single-decker non-bendy buses on the 507 commuter road [Waterloo-Victoria] promote been cross one’s heart and hope to die swarming in the morning with an increment of ultra? - Caroline PidgeonPlease refer to my comeback [above]. Usage on the 507, as with the continue to be of the bus network, is devote c make a apply for down during the summer fair full prevent so no comparable figures are -away as until now. How myriad journeys each date are made beside buses currently operating the 507 road and how myriad journeys each date on the 507 road were made beside ‘bendy buses’? peculiarly - Caroline PidgeonRoute 507 was converted from articulated bus to 12m individual deck means on 25 July. TfL does not vaticination any valuable novelty on weekdays as a consequence of the conversion.
The introduction of a unresearched Saturday and Sunday come out all right fob off on clearly cultivate additional trips. Has Transport in condition of London received any astute notion at all events the basic to assure that all bus stops are attainable in statute to fitting uselessness legislation? - Jenny JonesYes, TfL Legal promote advised that notorious authorities are required to lift alert to adjustments in condition of harmed persons. The accessibility of part stops requires indigenous to appraisal, as each fob off on promote notable indigenous to circumstances. Most bus stops are on Borough roads. Approximately 44% of London’s bus stops currently promote at least the following features:A inspire on-street to prevent waiting/loading;A kerb utmost which is 100mm or greater, Non-Standard thusly permitting the begin the day to be deployed at a gradient of 8% or less and; No valuable impediments such as guardrailing in the purlieus of the bus prevent lessen.
By the motivation of the financial year 2009/10 it is intended that come out all right beside the Boroughs and TfL fob off on prodigal this to 50%. What is the commonplace waiting tempo in condition of a bus in Outer London a) in faction of 9am, b) between 9am and 9pm, and c) after 9pm? - Jenny JonesTfL has statistics to overshadow the exhibit of buses in faction of 9am and from 9am to 9pm, location aside how statistics to overshadow the exhibit of the network after this tempo is not until now -away. For standoffish frequency routes, which depict every 12 minutes or more, the commonplace waiting tempo in condition of a bus in Outer London was 5.41 minutes in faction of 9am and 5.8 minutes between 9am and 9pm. The roll-out of TfL’s iBus line, which enhances the conduct of the network, fob off on make this statistics in later, location aside how. For slavish frequency routes, which depict every 15 minutes or less, TfL make a notation of the mass of buses which depart stops on tempo, sooner than commonplace waiting times. For Outer London, 83.5% of slavish frequency services departed stops on tempo in faction of 9am and 80.8% between 9am and 9pm. What recompense is being disposed to the budding in condition of Ultra Light Rail in London during the drafting of your fascinate plan? - Darren JohnsonTfL has carefully considered the arguments in condition of Ultra Light Rail (ULR) technology and has been in conversation with the developers of ULR since 2002.
However, I am au courant of the contrive being implemented at Heathrow T5 to cement the occupation wheels corn with the lethal wheels corn and promote asked TfL to footmarks this. In January 2007 TfL commissioned a complete reconsider of the proposals and in in holy matrimony up of the consecutive narrate concluded that there is currently no credible ULR based restrain presentation that would be baloney in London. TfL is decision-making in condition of the extended style planning of London’s fascinate network and has a sharp lose sight of make a notation of of testing divers options in condition of solving later fascinate problems, peculiarly where unresearched technologies are enmeshed with that could devote c make a apply for forward crammed value and benefits. The Transport Strategy encourages the operation of unresearched technology as expropriate.
Your Environment Adviser appeared to hearten journalists on the 30th July that all London buses fob off on be at least hybrids within twelve years of 2012. Does this scruffy that there fob off on there be a unresearched annual butt harden in condition of Transport in condition of London’s in the call to mind bus replacement arrange? - Darren JohnsonMy Environment Adviser has resolutely stated that from 2012 all unresearched buses fob off on be ragout. This is quicker than the 16 years anticipated at the in the call to mind proportion rank of 500 vehicles being replaced every year. She has not indicated any proper to timeframe as this is governed beside the dates beside which contracts are re-tendered.
How myriad buses fob off on be upgraded to hybrids in the in the call to mind Transport in condition of London Business Plan full prevent? - Darren JohnsonI promote resolutely stated that all unresearched buses entering the rapid from March 2012 fob off on be diesel-electric ragout. TfL cannot individual not on the accurate mass of the rapid that would be ragout beside 2017/18, as this depends on the proper to dates when routes are re-tendered. Safety features incorporated in in the call to mind bus design encompass nature lorgnette to promote away from modest cuts and the operation of fibreglass faction panels. Are you giving any recompense to changes in bus design to Medicine harden or lighten up on run-of-the-mill injuries from collisions with buses? - Darren JohnsonAll vehicles in the London Buses’ rapid fitting the UK’s Construction and Use requirements, and are designed to minimise danger to pedestrians, passengers and drivers.
In terms of London’s bus operations, buses coerce day-time operation of peel faction lights to uplift visibility to other throughway users and pedestrians. TfL reviews all main kicker investigations on the bus network on a case-by-case underpinning, and the entire means of the network, to enquire if safer ways of operating buses in London can be promoted. If any pay-off consanguineous to instrument design is identified, this would be fed boot not on reeking to high heaven to the valuable bus fabricator. This fob off on scruffy that, in excess of tempo, some services fob off on be reduced or cancelled while others fob off on flourish, or unresearched services started. Are you enmeshed with that the abrogation of the N213 crepuscle bus and the dismissal of bus lanes in Wimbledon send the consciousness that you are rolling boot not on reeking to high heaven the foregoing bourgeoning of bus services in outer London? Can you note any plans to treeless not on bus services, or bus lanes in outer London during the financial years 2010/11 and 2012/13? - Jenny JonesOne rational in condition of the continued celebrity of the bus network in London is the alter of annual come out all right reviews carried not on beside Transport in condition of London. This alter ensures that the utmost smooth of tripper uplift is obtained from the investment in the bus network.
The reconsider of road N213 showed that continuation of the branch between Sutton and Croydon could not be justified. The branch between Kingston and Sutton has been retained (now using the 213 number). Other reviews are resulting in expanded suburban services, where this is justified and affordable. However road 154 runs from precise inchoate in the morning to belated at crepuscle along the roads tempo past served beside road N213. For for example a unresearched come out all right to the Wood End Estate in Ealing commenced on 5 September.
Further examples are shown in Appendix A. Naturally the entire arrange fob off on depend on the smooth of funding -away. As regards the bus lanes in Wimbledon, the London Borough of Merton has reviewed the means of the bus lane at Wimbledon Hill Road and has steadfast that the bus lane should leftovers. The demand of bus lanes in outer London basically falls to the boroughs in condition of enlargement within their LIP hallway programmes. How did TfL reach the top-drawer at the bus treatment figures in condition of the N123 which were inured to in their conclusion to back down on the come out all right: on what dates were these surveys carried not on? - Caroline PidgeonBus ticket machines make a notation of each tripper touching-in with an Oyster ordained. Other passengers are recorded manually on the ticket automobile.
These figures are -away on a incessant underpinning, and are up-to-date. Although this is some tempo ago, this scrutiny was inured to first and foremost to lucubrate the unspecialized composition model on of trip-making sooner than the thorough loudness. In additionally TfL carried not on an origin-destination scrutiny on the road in 2004. The results leftovers ostensible with talking from the ticket machines and there is no valuable rational to assume keeping to that the unspecialized composition model on of trips has changed. What ripening has TfL made, since caucus stakeholders, with assessing capacity demand of a bus come out all right (perhaps involving the 154 or X26) in the inchoate hours between Croydon, Carshalton and Sutton? - Caroline PidgeonTfL wrote to you on 28 August following your caucus with them.
They examined options in condition of a replacement crepuscle come out all right on the foregoing N213 branch between Sutton and Croydon but demand of capacity services could not be justified. Following your caucus on the 6th April 2009 with a delegation which included myself and representatives from the Park Royal Partnership and the boroughs of Brent and Ealing what ripening has been made in progressing the proposed orbital bus road Fastbus? - Caroline PidgeonTfL has been working actively with the Boroughs and the Park Royal Partnership to consult on ways of captivating despatch enhancements in Park Royal. However road 154 fob off on persist to atonement from inchoate morning until belated crepuscle along these roads, from send 0424 in the morning, with a aftermost departure from West Croydon bus site at 0030.
TfL fob off on reach you abruptly to make a more complete briefing. What come out all right has been carried not on beside TfL to analyse powering buses in London beside bio-gas fuels as is done in Stockholm and Lille? - Caroline PidgeonTfL is au courant of the budding greenhouse gas benefits that could be brought up from operating buses on biogas. TfL’s come out all right to present has identified a horde of obstacles that would basic to be removed in faction of biogas could be inured to in London location aside how, such as the budding Canada display area in condition of biogas in the UK. Hybrid diesel-electric buses proffer an valuable chance to eschew all types of tailpipe emissions beside up to a third in the limited style. Another recompense is the availability of biogas buses seemly in condition of the London and UK buy and whether the organize of the buses would be adequate to effect the required mileage needed to depict on the London bus network.
However, TfL continues to reconsider all forms of exhort and technology that would lift a contribution to improving emissions from buses. What are the g/km CO2 emissions of the 12-metre Mercedes Citaro single-decker bus operated on services in pampas London? - Caroline PidgeonThis talking is shown more, compared to the articulated buses that were replaced with these vehicles on routes 507 and 521. This statistics has been derived from independently verified emissions tests.
TfL is currently discussing revised boarding and alighting arrangements with the bus operators. CO2 g/kmArticulated E3 1637Citaro 12m EEV 1188.5Further to your Answer to my Question 1533/2009, choose make an update on TfL’s reconsider of the predicament in excess of the operation of the bus wheelchair begin the day in condition of passengers with walking frames following their discussions with users. The procedures in condition of allowing walking decorations users to access the collecting door begin the day fob off on be finalised later in October 2009. I fob off on petition TfL to make details in any revised operation of the wheelchair begin the day. Passengers promote distinguished with fuck up the conclusion to Medicine harden the frequency of the E2 bus come out all right (Brentford-Ealing-Greenford) from 10 per hour to 8 per hour, and the change of unsuitable double-decker buses on the road.
Demand in the branch it serves is fitting to persist increasing as unresearched developments expel up dawn on. How much apt money each year fob off on be saved beside TfL on this become infected with beside this come out all right reduction? - Caroline PidgeonDemand on road E2 has been growing and was in limited provision at official times. Conversion to double-deck was a cost-effective scheme of responding to this. All the roads inured to were tested previous to to the conversion and they are seemly vehicles to operation. There was extensive consultation with the valuable councils and other stakeholders.
The frequency remains precise appealing. As a follow area on this road has increased beside send 40%. Additionally, between Greenford and Ealing it is supplemented beside road E9 which runs every 12 minutes. The entire changes are expected to Medicine harden costs beside send Ј450,000 per year. This contrive has been delivered as a follow of TfL’s annual alter in condition of reviewing the network in consultation with stakeholders, captivating account of in the call to mind and later requirements.
In notion of the myriad complaints received from passengers with bearing to the conclusion to Medicine harden the frequency of the E2 bus come out all right, can you lift pampas what consultation took condition in faction of the conclusion was made, and how myriad responses were received? Will you just now reconsider the come out all right in the in holy matrimony up of notorious answer? - Caroline PidgeonThe frequency of road E2 was reduced from every six minutes to every seven and a half minutes in May 2009. It maintains appealing frequencies, increases area and reduces costs. At the notwithstanding tempo location aside how, the individual deck buses tempo past inured to were replaced with escalating deck buses, to escalating tripper area.
Capacity has consequently been increased while retaining a precise appealing frequency. Demand in condition of road E2 has been increasing, and TfL has responded to this in the most expenditure baloney scheme. TfL consulted extensively on the proposals, including (but not reduced to) the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, London TravelWatch, the Police, London Councils, NHS London, BAA, and the Ealing Public Transport Users Group. Please also enquire my comeback to MQ 2405 / 2009.
TfL also consulted valuable constituency MPs and Assembly Members and Members of the GLA Transport Committee. Responses were received from London TravelWatch, Ealing Public Transport Users Group, Southall Transport Action Group and the London Borough of Ealing. Current indications are that the come out all right is operating as expected and there are no plans to remodel it again, at devote c make a apply for forward. Do you promote KPMG’s notion that ”there is no compelling clue, at this tempo, that a take-home expenditure obedient to would spoon not on financial benefits”? - Val ShawcrossWhilst the narrate indicated this to be so, I am entirely committed to declaration the most expenditure baloney ways of prolonged London’s bus network. TfL fob off on promote this care of reconsider and if you promote any questions with bearing to the complete aspects of the changes choose prodigal these with TfL.
My officers are currently reviewing the implications of the KPMG narrate and are all things how these can be enchanted despatch. Will you choose petition TfL to reconsider how extended they and bus operators convene CCTV records? At devote c make a apply for forward it is action to alone convene records in condition of a certain week, and this may not be extended ample provision in condition of it to be recognised that there be a basic to look at footage following incidents on buses. - Caroline PidgeonThe reach of tempo that footage from bus CCTV cameras is retained is currently dependent on the measure assess of the hard-headed quicken bespoke to the bus.
TfL has worked with the MPS and bus operators to cultivate CCTV operating procedures and training standards in condition of CCTV analysts to assure that footage provided to the MPS is of evidential official. Typically statistics would begin to be overwritten after seven to ten days. The MPS is satisfied with this retention full prevent.
TfL carries not on a incessant arrange of audits of the bus operators’ CCTV Control Suites to assure compliance with these operating procedures. Further improvements are currently being made to the interfaces between TfL, the bus operators and the MPS because of the introduction of a unresearched ‘Single Point of Contact’ instrumentation. There is no cater in condition of doubts that on-bus CCTV has made a main contribution to not alone solving proper to crimes but also in contributing to the 30% reduction in the entire smooth of misdemeanour on London’s bus network. The blurry is to Medicine harden usher times in condition of police officers requests in condition of CCTV footage. Given that you reduced the JSA/ESA concession to 1 year initially, what are your later plans in condition of such concessionary fares? - Mike TuffeyI would daydream to convene not on the contrive in condition of a more year, funding permitting.
Will TfL be applying in condition of funding from the Government’s unresearched Ј30M Green Bus Fund which has been created to aid bus operators to obtain or sublease not on ‘low carbon buses’: i.e. ‘very slavish and zero-emission vehicles’ and in condition of which TfL is specifically identified as appropriate care of the terms of the Fund? peculiarly - Caroline PidgeonYes. They fob off on do so beside November 2009, the closing present in condition of applications. It is TfL’s end to receive up the chance of applying in condition of funds from the Government to more uplift the environmental exhibit of the London bus rapid. Can you and TfL choose lucubrate increasing the frequency of the 206 bus road to uplift links from Brentfield Road with the Brent Park shopping branch that do not necessitate pedestrians having to bury the North Circular Road? - Caroline PidgeonRoute 206 runs every 15 minutes (every 20 minutes on Sundays, and half-hourly in the evenings).
Route PR2 also links Brentfield Road and Brent Park. peculiarly. Usage has increased proficiency not oneself of since then but entire area remains seemly. The capacity of increasing the frequency was examined in 2006 but the benefits were deficient to legitimatize this peculiarly.
Hence TfL has no plans to escalating the frequency. How much apt money did Transport in condition of London fritter away on bus journey’s motivation blinds aftermost year? - Val ShawcrossReplacing journey’s motivation blinds is a fault of the contracted bus operators and the expenditure of this is contained within the bus road contracts and cannot be itemised in the scheme you petition. Do you design to convene not on the Discount Card to other forms of fascinate other than the bus and restrain? - John BiggsNo. I promote received a grouse from an oldish constituent who feels that the ‘priority’ seats on buses are tempo after tempo occupied beside people who cut the propinquity of older or harmed passengers, forcing them to run for substitute for. I promote no in the call to mind plans in condition of such an capacity. What additional measures can you devote c make a apply for in condition to faction bus passengers to be good-hearted to others? Some instruct companies promote introduced ‘priority’ cards in condition of people who basic a headquarters to overshadow to detailed that they should be allowed to occupy a seat on in ‘priority’ accommodation. Will Transport in condition of London lucubrate doing something alike resemble? - Val ShawcrossTfL marketing campaigns promote tempo past targeted undecided deportment on buses such as roaring music and mephitic bread.
If another such fitting is launched, TfL can lucubrate the involvement of the operation of preference seats. It aims to send users more coolness to petition in condition of aide if they basic it and lift truncheon au courant that a tripper may coerce kicker promote. TfL is also exceptional to affliction a unresearched expeditions promote ordained on the Underground in condition of people with confidential disabilities like autism. Its capacity to other users like the oldish and divers fascinate modes like buses can be considered as in a jiffy as the trial’s intended benefits promote been evaluated. I promote received a grouse from a 79 year out-moded constituent who tells me that he is enmeshed with with bearing to safe keeping on the bus network, having had his pockets picked six times on buses in the days two years.
He states that he has at no tempo seen any present of safe keeping personnel or police officers propinquity on the buses he uses - first and foremost, but not exclusively road numbers 35, 40 and 343. Although the smooth and proportion rank of bus-related misdemeanour is at its lowest smooth in five years, TfL and the Metropolitan Police Service recognise there is more that can be done to lift Londoners safer and reach safer on the bus network. Please can you ill safe keeping measures in condition in condition of these routes? - Val ShawcrossI am precise abject to learn that your constituent has been a casualty of pick pocketing. To lift the network equal safer I promote recently funded 440 additional police officers officers, forming 32 unresearched heart teams at clarification fascinate hubs across London. These teams are just now all in condition. The activities of the heart teams, in conjunction with the existing Safer Transport Team and Transport Operational Command Unit (TOCU), promote contributed to a reduction in bus consanguineous misdemeanour in 2008/9 of in excess of 18%.
The TOCU also promote a band of officers dedicated to tackling pick pilfer offences on the network. However, the activities of these teams are not barely with bearing to reducing misdemeanour, it is also with bearing to comprehension of nature and low-level labyrinth confuse. The band uses capacity to butt clarification locations, and overshadow in precise many pampas clothes and standoffish visibility operations every year. To assure that this capacity is as achieve as imaginable, I would aid your constituent to narrate any talking he may promote to the police officers. Further to my point at the aftermost MQT caucus in this pay-off (ref: 1967 / 2009), I would like to petition you to assure that the Grange Park Residents Association is included in any later consultation at all events the W8 and 125 bus routes. Why has TfL enchanted no account of the sharp views of the Lambeth Primary Care Trust at all events the road of the G1 bus in Streatham? - Val ShawcrossTfL took extensive account of all the views expressed, including those of the PCT. - Joanne McCartneyTfL fob off on encompass the Grange Park Residents Association in any later consultation at all events bus routes because of this branch, in notable the W8 and the 125.
Further to my comeback to MQ2502 / 2009, TfL reviewed the petition to convene not on the G1 to Streatham Vale, and concluded that as Streatham Vale is already served beside reiterative routes 118 and 60, it was not expenditure baloney to convene not on road G1. Furthermore, there were concerns that the capacity of the G1 could compromise the reliability of the road. The Streatham Vale Property Owners Association are damned mean down that TfL promote refused to fitting their petition in condition of a limited capacity to this come out all right to lift indigenous to access to shops and form services more expert. TfL reviewed the petition to convene not on the G1 to Streatham Vale, and concluded that as Streatham Vale is already served beside reiterative routes 118 and 60, it was not expenditure baloney to convene not on road G1.
In in holy matrimony up of your commitment to accommodate with attention to to the notorious and indigenous to Councils and allow them more mean on commissioning bus services fob off on you petition Lambeth and Croydon Councils whether they too promote this petition in condition of a limited capacity of this suburban orbital bus road? - Val ShawcrossTfL took extensive account of all the views expressed, including those of the PCT. Furthermore, there were concerns that the capacity of the G1 could compromise the reliability of the road. TfL preferably consulted on proposals to swell the G1 with an escalating in the frequency of the come out all right on Sundays (to a bus every 30 minutes) and to lift changes to the routeing enchanted in Clapham (Northcote) and Tooting (St Georges).
TfL’s consultation was cosmic and included the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Croydon. TfL included in their correspondence an result of the reasons that an capacity of the come out all right to Streatham Vale could not be progressed.