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Post by sid on Nov 16, 2017 9:38:11 GMT
TfL have awarded £500,000 spread to 6 Operators for safety ideas Note the Leon Daniels comment at the end, the chosen safety improvements will be incorporated into contracts starting late 2018. Link I suspect this will attract a lot of negative comments?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 9:48:04 GMT
TfL have awarded £500,000 spread to 6 Operators for safety ideas Note the Leon Daniels comment at the end, the chosen safety improvements will be incorporated into contracts starting late 2018. Link I suspect this will attract a lot of negative comments? No Stagecoach input. Surprising.
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Post by vjaska on Nov 16, 2017 12:12:51 GMT
I suspect this will attract a lot of negative comments? No Stagecoach input. Surprising. Maybe they realised it's a silly concept - I can see this being a real problem for bus operators trying to retain and hire staff personally.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Nov 16, 2017 13:41:25 GMT
As we seem to have heard next to nothing further about proposals to fit variable speed limiters on buses I suspect this latest fad will also be somewhat swept under the carpet in due course. Posted on our internal site it says that follwing a succesful trial bus operators will fit Intelligent Speed Assistance later this year....... Based on the ecospeed system. Good luck when it goes wrong. More slow buses on the road, and another thing to keep vehicles off road.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Nov 16, 2017 13:42:53 GMT
Does this nonsense never end? When are cars and vans and lorries going to be singled out for the same treatment? For the past few decades! Cars and vans are tested for pedestrian impact safety and the result forms part of their headline Euro NCAP score. The UNECE regulations specify steadily-improving minimum standards. It's scarcely believable that buses and trucks have escaped attention for so long But they are. Not because you do not see them posted in the brochures, they are tested in the same way. Just car and van sales are to private buyers who are pick and choose.
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Post by snoggle on Nov 21, 2017 12:47:23 GMT
Another paper from TfL about safety initiatives for both Surface and LUL. Interestingly a number of safety stats have worsened and TfL are struggling to meet the targets they set themselves to reduce injuries to passengers. The paper sets out the plans and also shows, over three years in a venn diagram, those bus routes with the highest levels of injuries. Rather surprised to see the 123 turn up in the 2016/17 stats given there are far busier routes in London and there is typically a corelation between patronage levels and incident rates. Also lists the stations with the highest incident rates and causes (escalators, stairs, platform / train interface). Again not unsurprisingly it is people who are drunk or laden with shopping or distracted by phones or in a mad hurry that have the highest rates of injuries. The new generation of "safer" buses (to the new specification) are due in 2018. tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/sshrp-20171122-item10-reducing-injuries-across-tfl.pdf
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Post by snowman on Sept 13, 2019 10:10:12 GMT
TfL has announced it is trialling 5 safety mods to buses TfL Link Abellio will trial the Datik fatigue monitoring tool Arriva will trial the Humanising Autonomy vulnerable road user intent prediction software CT Plus will trial the Lytx Video-based driver safety coaching programme Metroline will trial the JBDL lighting system to illuminate area by the side of buses Stagecoach will trial the Fusion pedestrian & cyclist detection and driver alert system
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Post by snowman on Sept 9, 2021 6:46:57 GMT
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Post by capitalomnibus on Sept 9, 2021 10:50:52 GMT
No wonder the organisation is in the red. Led by the wrong people with a certain agenda
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Post by wirewiper on Sept 9, 2021 11:50:25 GMT
There always were going to be further updates to the Bus Safety Standards in 2024 (and will be in 2027 and 2030). Health and Safety policy and legislation is permissive, which means that future developments in Health and Safety can be incorporated at a later date. These three-yearly reviews of BSS are clearly set out in TfL's roadmap towards its target of no-one being killed in, or by, a London bus by 2030. This is a target that will have been agreed with the Government as part of TfL's funding at the time the BSS was launched in October 2018. Health and Safety duties are qualified by the phrase "as far as is reasonably practical", which means that an organisation can argue that the cost of implementing measures are not justified by the level of risk that will be reduced. However they do not permit an organisation to avoid introducing Health & Safety measures simply by claiming they cannot afford it. It is worth noting here that the BSS 24 standards will only be compulsory for vehicles new from 2024 onwards, and there is no requirement for existing vehicles to be retrofitted.
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Post by snowman on May 17, 2023 5:33:25 GMT
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