London Bus Watch by Tom Kearney

26 July 2026 Simon Lightwood MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department for Transport Great Minster House 33 Horseferry Road London SW1P 4DR Cc: Feryal Clark MP; The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP; Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE; Siân Berry MP; Lord Hampton Subject: London bus driver working conditions and ministerial awareness Dear Mr Lightwood, By way of introduction, London Bus Forums News is an independent transport news publication reporting on the policies, operations and developments shaping London’s transport network, together with selected national stories of wider significance. Further to the email sent by Bus Drivers’ Bill of Rights campaigner Kevin Mustafa to Feryal Clark MP on 21 July, on which you were copied, I...

Source: https://saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-are-you-and-simon-lightwood.html Auto-imported from Tom Kearney’s blog.

From: kevin mustafa Subject: Re: Bus Driver Safety, Fatigue and Accountability on London’s Bus Network Date: 13 July 2026 at 10:42:12 BST To: Claire Mann - TfL Chief Operating Officer <[email protected]> Cc: TfL Commissioner <[email protected]>, Neil Garratt AM <[email protected]>, Keith Prince AM <[email protected]>, Tom Kearney - LondonBusWatch <[email protected]>, Deputy Mayor for Transport <[email protected]>, Mayor of London <[email protected]>, General Secretary Unite <[email protected]>, Susan Hall AM <[email protected]>, Lorraine Robertson - Bus Driver Activist , Emma Best AM <[email protected]>, Alex...

From: kevin mustafa < > Subject: Re: Toilets on bus routes and Bus Drivers Bill of Rights Date: 8 July 2026 at 11:03:37 BST To: Lorraine Robertson < > Cc: Caroline Russell <[email protected]> Dear Caroline, Thank you for sharing the follow-up letter from Transport Commissioner Andy Lord regarding the 25 March 2026 meeting. While he uses polished, regulatory language, a close reading of his response actually provides concrete proof of the systemic failures we have been campaigning against. I want to break down his admissions on the three core areas so the Transport Committee can hold TfL firmly to account: 1. Toilet Facilities: The Failed Promise...

From: Tom Kearney <[email protected]> Subject: Your Proposed Roundtable with TfL Date: 7 July 2026 at 09:19:12 BST To: Kevin Mustafa < > Cc: TfL - Director of Bus <[email protected]>, Commissioner of Transport <[email protected]>, Neil Garratt <[email protected]>, Keith Prince AM <[email protected]>, Deputy Mayor of London - Transport <[email protected]>, Mayor of London <[email protected]>, Sharon Graham <[email protected]>, Susan Hall <[email protected]>, Lorraine Bus Driver , Emma Best <[email protected]>, Alex Wilson <[email protected]>, Rebecca Williams - ITV <...

TO: London Bus Forums FROM: Tom Kearney, #LondonBusWatch RE: TfL's Annual Dangerously-Hot Bus Cab Crisis (2018-2026)—A Briefing Note DATE: 29 June 2026 RE: TfL's Dangerously-Hot Bus Cab Crisis (June 2018-July 2026) I read London Bus Forums's thoughtful 1 July editorial—"Sadiq Khan backs London bus drivers as TfL questioned over cab cooling checks"—with a great deal of interest. While about a year ago this month last year, the TfL Commissioner Andy Lord admitted that London's bus contracts prioritised on-time performance over safety, the Mayor's 25 June statement on LBC— —marks the first time the Mayor's publicly admitted that TfL Bus Contracts financially incentivise Bus Operators to force Bus Drivers to operate Buses in...

From: Kevin Mustafa ([email protected]) Sent: Monday, June 22, 2026 10:04:59 pm To: Lorna Murphy, TfL, Director of Bus ([email protected]) Cc: TfL Commissioner ([email protected]); Alex Wilson AM ([email protected]); Anne Clarke AM ([email protected]); ITV News; Caroline Russell AM ([email protected]); Dan Tomlinson MP ([email protected]); Islington Tribune; Emma Best AM ([email protected]); Gareth Corfield - Telegraph; GLA-Scrutiny Team ([email protected]); LBC News; Lorraine Robertson; Lee Odams ([email protected]); Keith Prince AM ([email protected]); Michael Liebreich ([email protected]); Mayor of London ([email protected]); Neil...

Source: https://saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2026/05/re-ongoing-failure-to-address-dangerous.html Auto-imported from Tom Kearney’s blog.

By email and blogpost Sir Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London and TfL Chair City Hall Kamal Chunchie Way London E16 1ZE cc: Transport Commissioner; Deputy Mayor for Transport; Deputy Mayor for Social Justice and Communities, London Victims' Commissioner; TfL Walking and Cycling Commissioner; TfL Board Secretariat; TfL SSHR Panel Secretariat; TfL Chief Safety Officer; TfL Director of Bus; TfL Head of Insights and Direction; TfL Chief Operations Officer; London Assembly Transport Committee Members; CEO, London TravelWatch; Dan Tomlinson MP; Ben Coleman MP; Katie Lam MP; Olly Glover MP; Ruth Cadbury MP; Catherine Atkinson MP; Workplace Colleague Network - London Bus Forums; Sharon Graham - Unite the Union; Journalists; Bus Drivers; Campaigners...

Thank you, Mr. Mayor! "The past is never dead. It's not even past"—William Faulkner On 26 February, friends who know about my long-running volunteer campaign to pedestrianise Oxford Street congratulated me by emailing this BBC Report: Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans approved . The date of the Mayor's decision was eerily coincidental with my own Oxford Street 'experience': exactly 16 years before, I was released from a ten-week stay in hospital after I was critically injured by a TfL Bus on Oxford Street on 18 December 2009. 26 February 2010 Although the Mayor's pedestrianisation scheme—running East to West from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street—is bisected by open traffic roads flowing North...

To: Lorna Murphy, Director of Buses, TfL From: Kevin Mustafa RE: Bus Driver Safety, Fatigue and Accountability on London’s Bus Network Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2026 14:05:05 GMT cc: Transport Commissioner; Deputy Mayor for Transport; Deputy Mayor for Social Justice and Communities, London Victims' Commissioner; TfL Walking and Cycling Commissioner; TfL Board Secretariat; TfL SSHR Panel Secretariat; TfL Chief Safety Officer; TfL Director of Bus; TfL Head of Insights and Direction; TfL Chief Operations Officer; London Assembly Transport Committee Members; CEO, London TravelWatch; Dan Tomlinson MP; Ben Coleman MP; Katie Lam MP; Olly Glover MP; Ruth Cadbury MP; Catherine Atkinson MP; Workplace Colleague Network - London Bus Forums; Sharon...

To: Lorna Murphy, Director of Buses, TfL From: Kevin Mustafa RE: Why do the Mayor and TfL refuse to protect London's Bus Drivers from Institutionally Unsafe Working Conditions? Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:20 PM cc: Transport Commissioner; Deputy Mayor for Transport; Deputy Mayor for Social Justice and Communities, London Victims' Commissioner; TfL Walking and Cycling Commissioner; TfL Board Secretariat; TfL SSHR Panel Secretariat; TfL Chief Safety Officer; TfL Director of Bus; TfL Head of Insights and Direction; TfL Chief Operations Officer; London Assembly Transport Committee Members; CEO, London TravelWatch; Dan Tomlinson MP; Ben Coleman MP; Katie Lam MP; Olly Glover MP; Ruth Cadbury MP; Catherine Atkinson MP; Workplace...