Some serious concerns about numerous aspects of bus safety voiced by Tom Kearney here.

Lee Odams Tom Kearney Gaz Jackson RMT Dave Goard RMT South West NEC Lee-Martin Rundle Simon Lightwood MP Melanie Onn for Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes The Labour Party Louise Haigh Transport Committee Nadia Whittome MP Lilian Greenwood Mayor of London Bee Network Andy Burnham It's one hell of a read 😮

Great speech at our 81st busworkers conference by Tom Kearney Gaz Jackson
@rmtunion Dave Goard RMT South West NEC Lee-Martin Rundle Simon Lightwood MP
Melanie Onn for Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes The Labour Party Louise Haigh Transport Committee Nadia Whittome MP Lilian Greenwood Mayor of London
Bee Network Andy Burnham

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GETTR: @LabourSmear Tom Kearney Politoons Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West Neil Garratt AM Mayor of London TfL They can't get it right at Tesla, you think they will get it right in the middle of London in the near future?
I don't think they will have autonomous buses in my lifetime

Tom Kearney Politoons GETTR: @LabourSmear Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West Neil Garratt AM Mayor of London TfL Buses given difficult timetables to run the service
Due to cost by the operator
Then become impossible to run when TFL decide to drop the speed limits
Can't afford to put extra services on to make up the gap
It's ok, we'll just blame the drivers

Politoons GETTR: @LabourSmear Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West The more you dig the bigger the issue becomes
It's a huge huge issue

So much buzz and activity around ‘old’ City Hall this afternoon. Such a bizarre, self-defeating decision by Sadiq Khan to relocate.

I really like the area around Royal Docks but it’s just not the right location for London’s City Hall.

Politoons GETTR: @LabourSmear Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West For at least 6 years now, TFL has had in place a 'Speed Compliance Tool' that lists every time a TFL bus breaks the speed limit
It can be narrowed down to:
Operator
Depot
Route
Vehicle
Driver
We saw one grim a while back that showed an average of around 2,000 'events' a week!!!

Politoons GETTR: @LabourSmear Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West Tom Kearney Neil Garratt AM And that 2,000 'events'?
That's per route every week
Most routes you can't complete in the time you are given so TFL aren't going to give the operators more money to get more buses are they
They are skint...
The drivers either speed or are late

Politoons GETTR: @LabourSmear Marcus NX West Midlands Diamond Bus Midlands Stagecoach West However, nothing is ever done about it unless they're had been an accident
Then the operator says 'driver was speeding, we sacked the driver' and the problem goes away
TFL turn a blind eye to it but Tom Kearney and Neil Garratt AM have made everyone aware of the issues

That’s a wrap RMT National Industrial Organising Conference for Bus Workers done for 2024.
Thanks to all delegates who attended and all guest who spoke it’s been a pleasure ✊🚌RMT Simon Lightwood MP Melanie Onn for Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes Tom Kearney #meggies #grimsby

🚌Exciting news🚌 The RMT Bus Conference is coming to Cleethorpes, my own town! Can't wait for a few days filled with discussions, networking, and solidarity among RMT bus workers. It’s going to be a memorable event! ✊ #Cleethorpes #Meggies #BusWorker ⁦RMT⁩

Inside Croydon Tom Kearney TfL Go-Ahead London Croydon Conservatives ☝️🇬🇧 And we all know that the driver gets all the blame regardless of what happens
And they suffer the wrath of furious passengers to boot when they get a curtailment
How does this in any way shape or form promote any sort of safety when you have controllers pushing you to do miles?

Inside Croydon Tom Kearney TfL Go-Ahead London Croydon Conservatives ☝️🇬🇧 And let's not forget about the absolute chaos that is occurring at the Greenford roundabout on the A40 that stacks buses up left right and centre
So even if you could go to the toilet you don't have the time
All this does is put pressure directly onto the driver

Inside Croydon Tom Kearney TfL Go-Ahead London Croydon Conservatives ☝️🇬🇧 You want to talk about the 1,600 pupil school that is now only served by one bus route?
Because the E5 and the 95 both had that school on their route and now it's just left to the 105
Or your about the 800,000km a year they cut from the 427?
Operator is now running out at a loss

Inside Croydon Tom Kearney TfL Go-Ahead London Croydon Conservatives ☝️🇬🇧 The E10 regularly gets stuck round the back of Greenford
The E11 gets stuck in Copley Close
Ask the buses that go through Uxbridge can get stuck if one car parks incorrectly
And what are the 95, 482, H32 etc that get blocked in Southall all the time?

Inside Croydon Tom Kearney TfL Go-Ahead London Croydon Conservatives ☝️🇬🇧 TFL recently rerouted the E5 bus because it went through some tight roads
They blamed 'people parking their cars in the wrong place'
Rather than enforcement of parking restrictions, they decided that so the old people on that route didn't need a bus for a mile

Bus & Coach Buyer Tom Kearney London Assembly Cllr. Keith Prince A.M. Neil Garratt AM BWTUC Caroline Pidgeon AM🔶 🇺🇦 Sian Berry Lee Odams The point Tom is making is that this needs to be grunt page news everywhere, not just in an industry magazine primarily only available to the industry and not to the general public everywhere
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