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2 Oct, 12 tweets, 19 min read
IMO @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport must conduct URGENT SCRUTINY of @TfL @MayorofLondon (Chair) Oversight of #Covid19 Risk to Bus Drivers! @CarolinePidgeon @KeithPrinceAM @sianberry @ellyannab @NeilGarratt @NJROnline @anne_clarke @JoanneMcCartney @unmeshdesai @ShaunBaileyUK
ICYMI @BBCfileon4 just broadcast CHILLING @PaulKenyonTV INVESTIGATION of @TfL Bus Driver #Covid19 Deaths featuring interviews w @KevinMustafa16 @MLiebreich @LeshieLoves @Johnrashton47 HT>@annabeldeas bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
this follows @edthicknesse @CityAM excellent 2 Feb Revealed: The London bus drivers 'abandoned' to the pandemic

cityam.com/revealed-the-l…
AND @edthicknesse @CityAM 17 March

"More than 2,000 TfL bus drivers have caught Covid-19 since October [2020]"
cityam.com/more-than-2000…
And DOZENS of VERY ENLIGHTENING Questions to @MayorofLondon & @TfL from @KeithPrinceAM & @CarolinePidgeon since May 2020 london.gov.uk/questions/
but LAST WORD @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport has to say re @TfL Response to #Covid19 is DEEPLY-FLAWED (IMO) @CityHallLabour -led 31July2020 "Tram & Bus Safety" Investigation. ONLY mentions #Covid19 5 times incl this (@TfL-scripted?) statement! london.gov.uk/about-us/londo…
ICYMI former @TfL Board Member & Safety Panel Chair called this latest @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport Tram & Bus Investigation an "insult" to the victims of TfL's "Institutionally Unsafe" Surface Transport Operation.
ICYMI then-@GLAConservative Members @KeithPrinceAM @ShaunBaileyUK @GarethBaconMP & @davidkurten REFUSED to endorse Investigation which IMO a WHITEWASH of @TfL @MayorofLondon Dubious Generally-Unscrutinised by @BBCLondonNews @standardnews TfL Safety Record guardian-series.co.uk/news/18624218.…
IMO Emboldened by lack of published scrutiny from @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport now @MayorofLondon @TfL ignoring &/or responding contemptuously to reasonable Bus & Tram #MQT Questions. QED this reasonable @KeithPrinceAM Q - No Response since July. london.gov.uk/questions/2021…
Or this much-delayed & then chilling response to reasonable @KeithPrinceAM #Covid19 Question. london.gov.uk/questions/2021…
IMO contempt @TfL Executives felt for @KevinMustafa16 & me on 10 June palpable. Clear to me they had "more important things to do" than take Qs from us. IMO they need to sit in front of @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport w us & take Qs in Public! saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2021/10/stopki…
TfL Executives don't like that much, do they? Which is exactly why we need Urgent Tram & Bus Scrutiny now. @TfL @MayorofLondon must be held accountable by @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport b/c IMO @BBCLondonNews @standardnews sure ain't going to do it!

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