Update A Few Facts about the Operational Safety Performance of Transport for London's (TfL) Franchised Bus Operation (2014-2024)
1. London accounts for about one half of UK Bus Journeys and one quarter of the UK's Bus Fleet.
Source: DfT
2. TfL Buses are ten times more lethal than their presence on London's roads would predict; since 2014, 1 in 10 RTC Fatals and 1 in 10 Pedestrian Deaths in London have involved a TfL bus.
Sources: Mayor of London; TfL; London Assembly
3. TfL’s sole metric of bus contract performance is a time-based “Excess Waiting Time”/Headway calculation that independent benchmarking shows London—
in the highest tercile of its ‘world city’ peers for Bus Punctuality and Profitability per Bus;
in lowest tercile of its ‘world city’ peers for safety (collisions per km);
London has the least safe public bus system of any major...