Byford tells @NeilGarratt "Well I haven't seen the SPECIFIC pieces of evidence to which you referred" OK... 1) Here's Bus Driver Lorraine Robertson telling @CarolinePidgeon "We [Bus Drivers] don't know anything about #VisionZeroLDN" cc @SebDance
2) Here's Lorraine telling @NeilGarratt "We're just Bus Drivers...maybe [@TFL, Bus Contractors] think we don't need to know anything about #VisionZeroLDN?"
3) Here's Lorraine telling @NJROnline that, in the depots, Bus Driver Fatigue is ignored by @TfL & its Bus Operators.
4) & this—from 11Jan22—is @TfL Chief Safety Officer Lilli Matson responding very hesitantly (evasively IMO!) to @NJROnline forensic questions re 'What exactly is TfL doing about Bus Driver Fatigue?'
5) also from 11Jan22, here's Lilli Matson responding evasively (dismissively IMO) to @NeilGarratt excellent follow-up questions on Bus Driver Fatigue. REMEMBER: her title is CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER. Seriously, WTAF?
& if you listen closely—you'll note—in response to his references to Lorraine's 14Dec21 Chilling Public Testimony, Matson gives same response to @NeilGarratt that @TfL Commissioner Byford gave him yesterday: "I am not familiar with the evidence to which you're referring"
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"I am grateful that the Committee invited former London Bus Driver Lorraine Robertson to answer questions on 14 December 2021: it’s the first time I can recall one of us being so honoured to participate in a public session."
"As has been noted Lorraine, the only reason she was able to speak freely about the long-standing poor working conditions suffered by London Bus Drivers is because she does not have to worry about being fired by her employer for doing so." saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2022/01/vision…
"I am grateful for being invited to speak to the London Assembly Transport Committee on 14 December 2021 as part of its Investigation of the Mayor’s Vision Zero Programme."
"Further to my testimony, I believe the Transport Committee should consider making the following recommendations to ensure that the @MayorofLondon#VisionZeroLDN goals are incorporated into Bus Driving in London."
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?"
Will @VanessaOnAir ask @Heidi_LDN@TfL if she thinks "Concealing or denying failings, for the sake of the organisation's public image, is dishonesty on the part of the organisation for reputational benefit & constitutes a form of institutional corruption"?