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Joined October 2023
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✅Days Spent Campaigning to Pedestrianise Oxford Street 2009-26: 6156 😩 ✅Length of Soundbite in Oxford Street “Victory Lap” Interview on ITV London News: 21 Seconds 😳 ✅TV Interviewer gets my first name wrong: Priceless 🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=o1R1z34f…
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#OxfordStreet pedestrianisation starts on Monday 26 October 🚍 However, bus routes and stops will begin changing from this Saturday 24 Oct Main diversions will be in place from 8pm on Sunday and return journeys could differ from your outward trip See below for more details 👇
Oxford Street is becoming traffic-free 🚶‍♂ From Monday 26 October, the section between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street will be traffic-free. All traffic will be diverted from the evening of Sunday 25 October 🚗🚲🚌 Check your journey before you travel: tfl.gov.uk/oxford-street-tra…
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London Bus Forums retweeted
Bus crash at Charing cross today...
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🚌 Bus drivers can have to go hours without access to a toilet; forced to hold it in or use bottles or hedges. Unite bus workers have been campaigning for years for access to clean lockable toilets and hand washing facilities. This is another huge win for the capital's bus drivers. Authorities and operators across the UK and Ireland must now follow suit
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Sadiq Khan seemed quite excited to tell us that his planned new state-owned bus company will specify only British buses. Something that would be illegal if we were in the EU: is he turning into a Brexiteer?
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You know Tom, it's almost like I *already knew* back in June what the truth was, and worded my question to expose the Mayor's duplicitous nature! As you know perfectly well, loads of buses don't have AC but back in June the Mayor decided to pretend they did hoping to fob me off.
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IMHO since this preventable KSI Bus Crash happened under PM's watch as @MayorofGM, his concern about @TfL Bus Safety Problems certainly justified, but maybe he should take a look at his own record? Any Systemic "Lesson's Learned" or just Blame the Driver? manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
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Correction: in August I said London bus drivers accidentally pressing the wrong pedal causes 2 crashes per month. It turns out it's 3. mylondon.news/news/transport…
I bet you £1 the cause turns out to be the driver stamping on the accelerator thinking it's the brake, known as pedal confusion. It's so common on London buses that there's a whole literature on it. Happens about 2x per month, usually at low speed, sometimes fatally.
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Well done on a great piece. All Londoners should thank you for your work on London's bus safety scandal. In the end it will break into the open, like the Post Office scandal, and get fixed. You are bringing that day a bit closer.
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BTW @MayorofLondon told @KeithPrinceAM in February 2022 that Route D7 didn't have a toilet at 1 end. Sooo..@TowerHamletsNow Councillors now motived to save Route D7 did nothing for 4+ years re Poor Working Conditions of @TfL Bus Drivers working on it? london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…
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Huge thanks to @LondonBusForums, @comadad and @MLiebreich for trusting us with their stories
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New: Today we are releasing MyLondon's months-long investigation into bus driver working conditions in London. Have a read of our longform campaign calling on the Mayor of London and TfL to ensure basic rights for drivers are written into contracts: mylondon.news/news/transport…
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And to campaigners who have fought the good fight for years - including @comadad, @BusSafetyRep, @LondonBusForums and many others - your stories have shed a much-needed light on 'Dickensian' working conditions in a capital city in 2026.
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Over the past 24 hours residents have been sharing their fears about the layout of our bus station - I want to reassure you all this is something have been pushing on and asking Transport for London to address. You can read my letter to them and the Mayor here.
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London Bus Forums retweeted
Years being invited by @LondonAssembly #AssemblyTransport to share my research on #BusSafety but not once to meet w @SadiqKhan. TBH, if invited now it’d be hard to resist revealing that I consider @TfL Chair Negligent re Safety & Driver Working Conditions youtube.com/watch?v=6BNNvRnC…
Tom hasn’t merely been criticising TfL from the outside. He’s repeatedly walked through the doors of City Hall and put the evidence directly in front of the people responsible. And to think @MayorofLondon’s dad was one of those bus drivers…
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London Bus Forums retweeted
The Deputy Mayor for Transport also seems unaware that TfL has specified AC in London bus cabs for 20 years. The question is - why does it so often not work? And why has the Mayor been batting away questions for years by denying there's a problem? nitter.gq/SebDance/status/209769…
I'm delighted that every bus cab will get air conditioning, helping support the hard-working drivers who are at the heart of our transport network, day in and day out. A real step forward for those who serve London every day. 🚍☀️
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“personal priority” @SadiqKhan? Why did you GASLIGHT @KeithPrinceAM @NeilGarratt @LondonAssembly about “A/C being @TfL Standard since 2006?” 🤔 IMHO as TfL Chair, years of your answers to Mayor’s Qs make you appear ✅out-of-touch ✅mendacious & ✅negligent saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.c…
Improving conditions for bus drivers was a personal priority for me. That's why I pushed for air conditioning in every London bus cab - and I’m pleased to see an agreement between @TfL and @UnitetheUnion is making that happen.
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“This also represents a huge win for campaigners who have been pushing for TfL to implement a 'Bill of Rights' into TfL contracts w/ bus companies for several years” HT>@Luke_Donnelly99 Relentless Campaigners like @musty1970 @LondonBusForums #TakeTheWin 🏆mylondon.news/news/transport…
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“Air conditioning will be fitted in some London buses in what the Unite union described as a "ground-breaking victory" 🤨 WHAT a load of 💩!! So neither @BBCLondonNews nor @unitetheunion read any @MayorofLondon responses to @LondonAssembly since 2018? 🙄saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.c…
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Arguably more under than in, here.
Meanwhile, a bus driver crash in to a petrol station yesterday evening
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