On how many occasions in the last 12 months have any TfL committees discussed motorcycle safety? Please provide information about how the impact of the streetspace programme on motorcycle safety is to be assessed. Please provide information on how TfL plans to monitor the impact of the streetspace programme on motorcycle journey times.

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TfL Refs: FOI-1305-2021 and FOI-1306-2021

Thank you for your requests received by Transport for London (TfL) on 8^th October 2020 asking for information about TfL meetings with motorcycle representative groups and motorcycle safety.

Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.

I can confirm that we hold the information you require. Your questions are answered in turn below:

Please provide details of which motorcycling representative groups TfL officials have met with in the last six months; what was on the agenda for discussion at the meetings; and on what dates those meetings took place.

Note that during the last six months upwards of 7,000 TfL staff were on furlough due to the coronavirus pandemic, and our work across that period has largely focussed on essential activity to keep London’s transport running safely.

Notwithstanding the above, on 17^th July 2020 our Strategic Communications Lead, Air Quality, and two other TfL officials met with the Motorcycle Action Group and London Assembly member Keith Prince - at Mr Prince’s request - to discuss their request for TfL to exempt motorcycles from the Ultra Low Emission Zone.

On 23^rd October 2020 TfL hosted its regular Freight Forum to update industry on a number of key policy areas. Logistics operators who manage powered two wheeler fleets were invited to attend.

Outside of the timeframe of your request but of particular note, in December 2019 TfL hosted the Vision Zero Reference Group, with the session focused on the safety challenges experienced with regard to powered two wheelers on London’s streets. Motorcycle representative groups attended this session. A key outcome from this meeting was the need to better understand powered two wheeler collision data. TfL has been working to better understand powered two wheeler collision data, and to combine this with other insights received at the session to determine the next steps in improving the safety of powered two wheeler riders.

On how many occasions in the last 12 months have any TfL committees discussed motorcycle safety?

Our Secretariat has run a search of the TfL Board and Committee meetings that they service and provided the following returns where motorcycles were mentioned. Links are provided to the online material that exists in relation to those meetings. Note that motorcycle safety may have been discussed at lower-level meetings and project boards, not captured by this search:

Board	Paper	Link
24 July 2019	Item 5 Commissioners Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers/2019
24 July 2019	Item 9 HSE Annual Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers/2019
18 September 2019	Item 5 Commissioners Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers/2019
20 November 2019	Item 5 Commissioners Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers/2019
18 March 2020	Item 5 Commissioners Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers
29 July 2020	Item 5 Commissioners Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers
29 July 2020	Item 8 SHE Annual Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/board-papers
Programmes and Investment Committee	Paper	Link
23 October 2020	Item 13 Air Quality (references to scrappage schemes)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic-20191023-agenda-and-papers-public.pdf
18 December 2020	Item 7 Quarterly Investment Performance Report (IPR) (reference to Direct Vision Standard (DVS)) and Item 11 Air Quality (references to scrappage schemes)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic20191218-agenda-public-updated.pdf
5 March 2020	Item 7 Quarterly IPR (reference to DVS)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic-20200305-public-agenda-documents.pdf
20 July 2020	Item 14 Air Quality (references to scrappage schemes)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic-20072020-agenda-public.pdf
16 October 2020	Item 6 Quarterly IPR (reference to DVS)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic-20201016-public-pack.pdf
Customer Service and Operational Performance Panel	Paper	Link
12 September 2019	Minutes – reference to BikeSafe scheme and item 5 Quarterly Customer Service and Operational Performance (CSOP) Report	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/csopp-20190912-public-agenda-pack.pdf
27 November 2019	Item 5 Quarterly CSOP report	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/csopp-20191127-public-agenda.pdf
27 February 2020	Item 5 Quarterly CSOP report	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/csopp-20200227-public-agenda-pack.pdf
10 June 2020	Item 5 Quarterly CSOP report	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/joint-panel-sshrp-csop-10-june-2020-supplementary-agenda-and-papers.pdf
23 September 2020	Item 6 Enhanced Approach to Public Engagement and Local Advocacy - a Focus on the London Streetspace Programme (reference to Motorcycle Action Group)	http://content.tfl.gov.uk/csopp-20200923-agenda-documents.pdf
Safety, Sustainability and Human Resources Panel	Paper	Link
4 September 2019	Item 6 Quarterly Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/ss-and-hr-past-years
13 November 2019	Item 5 Quarterly HSE Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/ss-and-hr-past-years
13 November 2019	Item 9 Vision Zero Update	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/ss-and-hr-past-years
12 February 2020	Item 5 Quarterly SHE Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/ss-and-hr-past-years
10 June 2020	Item 5 Quarterly SHE Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/safety-sustainability-hr
9 September 2020	Item 5 Quarterly SHE Report	https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/safety-sustainability-hr

Please provide information about how the impact of the streetspace programme on motorcycle safety is to be assessed.

And;

Please provide information on how TfL plans to monitor the impact of the streetspace programme on motorcycle journey times.

The safety of all road users is a critical factor in the evaluation of the London Streetspace programme, and this includes powered two wheeler riders. Collision data will be used to understand if schemes are impacting the safety of particular road users. Note that TfL has recently extended the operating hours of more than 80 kilometres of bus lanes across the Transport for London road network. In most cases, powered two wheelers will also be able to travel in the bus lanes at all times. The evaluation of this initiative will include understanding the safety impacts of this change on both powered two wheelers, and other road users accessing the bus lanes. TfL is monitoring how general traffic, which includes powered two wheelers, adjusts to schemes, in particular where changes to road use are significant - for example, at Bishopsgate.

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David Wells

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General Counsel

Transport for London

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