TfL Ref: FOI-0153-1718

Thank you for your email received by us on 16 April 2017 asking for information about yellow box infringements fines issued to bus companies.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our Information Access Policy. You asked:

I am writing to you today as my last request was left unanswered due to my wording of the question. So as I am now aware various companies run routes of behalf of TFL,and my question is how many if any, have been issued with a fine by TFL for Yellow Box infringements.

Any vehicle observed contravening a traffic restriction on the red route network may be issued a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN). As advised in our previous response, bus services in London are run by private operators who have been awarded a contract by TfL. PCNs are therefore issued to the private operators. Information about bus operating companies can be found on our website at: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-fleet-data-and-audits.

For yellow box contraventions seen between 1 January and 31 December 2016, we issued 398 PCNs to vehicles registered under the names of TfL’s contracted bus operating companies. We do not record the type of vehicle that a PCN is issued to, therefore it is not possible to identify how many of those PCNs were issued to buses.

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Yours sincerely,

Melissa Nichols

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London