Questions to the Mayor 19 October, 2018 ANSWERED QUESTIONS PAPER Subject: MQT on 19 October, 2018 Report of: Executive Director of Secretariat Increase in vulnerable road user casualties Question No: 2018/2510 Caroline Russell What immediate actions will you take to reduce the increased risk faced by vulnerable road users in London, as shown in the latest Transport for London (TfL) road safety report? Answer for Increase in vulnerable road user casualties The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 No death or serious injury is acceptable. That is why my Transport Strategy includes Vision Zero, with targets to reduce and then eliminate deaths and serious injuries on the transport network by 2041. Transport for London (TfL) recently published its Vision Zero Action Plan, which sets out a range of bold measures to achieve the Mayor’s Vision Zero targets. Work is now in hand to: ce speed limits on 150km of TfL’s road network, including all of TfL’s roads inside the congestion charging zone. London Boroughs to help embed Vision Zero into their Local Implementation Plans. | Accessible travel on the tube for people with limited mobility (1) Question No: 2018/2511 Caroline Russell Visitors to London with limited mobility have no way to judge the walking distances between tube lines or from entrance to platform on arrival at London’s mainline stations. Will you ask Transport for London (TfL) to include walking times on signage? Answer for Accessible travel on the tube for people with limited mobility (1) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) recognises the importance of walking distance information for some of its customers, which is why it has conducted an audit of walking distances within London Underground stations. TfL plans to integrate this information within Journey Planner and make it available to third party app developers as part of its open data policy. This will enable customers with varying mobility needs to plan their journeys in advance. TfL tries to keep signs as simple as possible so as not to overload customers with too much information. This is why TfL uses colour and pictograms as much as possible, so the signs are simple and universal. This also makes navigation easier for people aren’t proficient in English. TfL will be in touch with your office with a progress update on Journey Planner and app integration, once timescales for the completion of this work have been agreed. | Accessible travel on the tube for people with limited mobility (2) Question No: 2018/2512 Caroline Russell Will you ask Transport for London (TfL) to develop an app giving walking times at tube stations to help people with limited mobility to plan routes with the least walking and fewest stairs or will TfL share this information in its journey planning open data for app developers to use? Answer for Accessible travel on the tube for people with limited mobility (2) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 Please see my response to Mayor’s Question 2018/2511 | Liveable Neighbourhoods bids from boroughs (1) Question No: 2018/2513 Caroline Russell In answer to my question 2018/1441 you told me 28 boroughs submitted bids for Liveable Neighbourhoods programme funding. How much funding would have been allocated if all 28 bids were successful? Answer for Liveable Neighbourhoods bids from boroughs (1) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 The Liveable Neighbourhoods Programme has a total budget of £115m (over the TfL business plan). If all 28 bids had been successful, this funding would have been allocated between them. However, funding is only awarded to bids which meet the Healthy Streets criteria as set out in my Transport Strategy and not all of the bids were of the standard required to qualify under this scheme. As mentioned in Mayor’s Question 2018/1441, seven boroughs were awarded funding in 2018/19. Boroughs will have the opportunity to bid for further schemes in November 2018, and in future years. You can find out more about this on the TfL website. | Liveable Neighbourhoods bids from boroughs (2) Question No: 2018/2514 Caroline Russell In answer to my question 2018/1441 you told me 28 boroughs submitted bids for Liveable Neighbourhoods programme funding. Will your office provide guidance to boroughs to help improve their bids for the next round of funding? Answer for Liveable Neighbourhoods bids from boroughs (2) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) has proactively engaged and collaborated with all London boroughs to help ensure that revised bids are improved, and that new bids are ambitious in contributing to the delivery of my Transport Strategy. Over the past year, TfL has updated the Liveable Neighbourhoods guidance which now includes more detail about freight, how TfL is assessing the bids, use of sustainable drainage systems, the role of innovation, and introducing a more simplified and efficient bidding procedure. TfL has presented Liveable Neighbourhood workshops, conferences and engagement sessions, as well as site visits and bid support meetings. TfL also invited London Councils to sit on the Liveable Neighbourhoods Board to provide strategic direction for the programme and ensure borough feedback is considered. | Cycling Delivery Plan Question No: 2018/2515 Caroline Russell Thank you for your answer to my question 2018/1757. When will your Cycling Delivery Plan be published? Answer for Cycling Delivery Plan The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 My Cycling Action Plan, including the plan for delivery, will be published by the end of this year. | Countdown to arrival screens at bus stops Question No: 2018/2516 Caroline Russell A constituent has asked if Transport for London (TfL) will review its policy on countdown time of arrival screens at bus stops to include installing and funding screens at bus stops with over 60,000 or even 70,000 boarders per year? Answer for Countdown to arrival screens at bus stops The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 Transport for London (TfL) provides real time bus arrival information for Londoners through a number of channels, and its research shows that most Londoners access this information using personal devices such as mobile phones. As a result, since the implementation of 2,500 Countdown signs in shelters in 2011/2, additional Countdown signs have not been prioritised in the budget. TfL does understand that there will be local requests for further signs and, providing the stop is suitable, has offered the opportunity for London boroughs to purchase additional signs, perhaps using secured Section 106 funding or alternative private purchase funding streams. TfL’s policy is that stops with more than 50,000 boarders per year are suitable for third party funded installation. TfL does not hold any budget for any Countdown signs, and would therefore not be able to fund a new sign, regardless of the number of boarders per year. TfL does recognise the need to provide real time information to customers, and will keep working with third parties to ensure data is distributed through smartphone applications. | Star rating system for lorries and Vision Zero action plan (1) Question No: 2018/2517 Caroline Russell How many HGVs currently operating in London would be rated a) zero stars, b) one star, c) two stars, d) three stars, e) four stars, and f) five stars under your star rating system? If precise figures are unavailable could you give the best estimates based on your working assumptions used in the Vision Zero action plan? Answer for Star rating system for lorries and Vision Zero action plan (1) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 In April 2018, AECOM carried out a data collection exercise on behalf of Transport for London (TfL) in order to more accurately predict the London population of Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs). This analysed the number of HGVs over 12 tonnes gross vehicle weight (Category N3) operating in London by make and model against the proposed Direct Vision Standard (DVS). The results indicate that 0-star vehicles represent 29 per cent of the London N3 vehicle population, vehicles with a 1-2 star rating represent 43 per cent, and vehicles rated 3-5 stars represent 28 per cent of London N3 vehicles. The total number of unique individual N3 vehicles recorded entering London in 2016 was 222,278. | Star rating system for lorries and Vision Zero action plan (2) Question No: 2018/2518 Caroline Russell How many HGVs do you expect to improve their star rating using the ‘safe system’ outlined in your Vision Zero action plan? Could you tell me what the assumptions are for lorries and HGVs improving from a) zero stars to one star, b) one star to two stars, and c) two stars to three stars? Answer for Star rating system for lorries and Vision Zero action plan (2) The Mayor Last updated: 24 October, 2018 The star rating of a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) relates solely to the measurement of how much a driver can see other road users directly from their cab. However, a vehicle that does not meet the minimum star rating threshold (1 star in 2020) will still be able to operate in London provided it has the mitigating safe system features fitted. The safe system is a series of vehicle safety measure to address the current poor levels of direct vision in the existing HGV fleet and reduce the overall risk HGVs present to cyclists and pedestrians. The safe system does not count towards an HGV’s direct vision star rating because it is an alternative system for those vehicles whose star rating does not meet the minimum requirement. Application of the safe system therefore cannot improve the star rating of a vehicle, which relates solely to the direct vision the vehicle provides.