TfL Board Documents: Snippets of Interest
Jan 31, 2024 1:54:00 GMT
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Post by matthieu1221 on Jan 31, 2024 1:54:00 GMT
Am intending on only noting down what has not been revealed elsewhere previously on this thread.
Board - Wednesday 7 February 2024
The agenda for the Board meeting to be held on February 7th is out now.
TfL's first operating surplus in its history -- not since the pandemic, but since it's creation (surprises me to a certain extent).
4. Matters Arising, Actions List and Use of Delegated Authority
TfL was on track to deliver an operating surplus for the first time in its history, which was a remarkable achievement and turnaround of the situation it faced during the coronavirus pandemic. There was strong passenger demand across the network and, on 12 December 2023, TfL announced that ridership figures to stations close to Christmas attractions were exceeding pre-pandemic levels this year. Entries and exits at Oxford Circus on 24 November 2023 (Black Friday) were 27 per cent higher than usual, and bus demand was eight per cent higher in 2023 than in 2022.
4. Matters Arising, Actions List and Use of Delegated Authority
Some items to look for in the upcoming months:
Commissioner’s Report: Investment in Bus Network in Outer London
The Mayor’s £6m investment to improve the outer London bus network was fully allocated and a list of the bus routes and changes to deliver that improvement would be provided to Members.Target date: February 2024
The Mayor’s £6m investment to improve the outer London bus network was fully allocated and a list of the bus routes and changes to deliver that improvement would be provided to Members.Target date: February 2024
Finance Report, Quarter 1, 2023/24: Superloop Monitoring
The Superloop investment would increase connectivity for outer London and had a monitoring framework that would enable the service to be developed and refined. The Customer Service and Operational Performance Panel would look at this in more detail.Target date: March 2024
The Superloop investment would increase connectivity for outer London and had a monitoring framework that would enable the service to be developed and refined. The Customer Service and Operational Performance Panel would look at this in more detail.Target date: March 2024
Annual Update on 2022/23 Delivery of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy: Borough Delivery Reports
The engagement and collaboration with London Councils and the individual London boroughs was discussed. TfL published a London borough data pack and produced borough delivery reports that encouraged learning from successful action and identified areas for improvement. The delivery reports would be circulated to Members when published.Three-year report available here
The engagement and collaboration with London Councils and the individual London boroughs was discussed. TfL published a London borough data pack and produced borough delivery reports that encouraged learning from successful action and identified areas for improvement. The delivery reports would be circulated to Members when published.Three-year report available here
5. Commissioner's Report
Foreword
From CEO, CFO. Includes mentions of fare freeze, Friday off-peak trial but also:
Safety and security
[...] the Mayor has also indicated that he intends to make funding available to enable us to invest an additional £3m per year in new customer toilet facilities across our estate. Feasibility work on improving and enhancing toilet provision is already under way, and we welcome this commitment of additional funding.
Safety and security
Covers recent incidents include the bus fires but not much further detail. Regarding Victoria Bus Station, seems like a bigger rework may be on the cards:
On 10 August 2021, a member of the public tragically died as a result of a collision between two buses at Victoria bus station. The bus driver admitted to causing death by careless driving and was sentenced on 5 January 2024. As mentioned in the last report, improvement works began at Victoria bus station in November 2023 in line with the action plan we provided to the Health and Safety Executive. This addresses the issues raised in their Notice of Contravention and we are working with the Health and Safety Executive to create a better, safer bus station with a more functional layout.
Section on crime is pretty standard.
Further 20mph zones in the immediate future:
We aim to reduce the speed limit on a further 12km of our roads during March to May 2024. This includes roads in Wandsworth, Sutton and Merton, as well as the A205 in Richmond, A4 and A312 corridors in Hounslow, Woolwich Ferry terminals, A117 corridor in Newham and a section of the A406 in Enfield and Waltham Forest. In the coming months, we will analyse the speed monitoring data collected at locations where this work has already taken place, to identify if and where physical interventions to slow approaching vehicles are required to complement the new speed limits.
Future junction safety improvement projects in addition to Holloway Road/Drayton Park which will be completed in March:
Further design and survey work is continuing at pace on the Battersea Bridge Safer Junction scheme, with construction due to start in autumn pending approvals and coordination with other works on the network. We continue with design and outcome planning work on the remaining dangerous junctions and we are committed to public engagement on potential changes to 10 further locations by the end of 2024. We intend to start engagement on designs for Seven Sisters Road/Woodberry Grove by the end of February 2024.
Our customers
Elizabeth Line:
Central Line train shortages:
Bus priority programme:6. Finance Report - Quarter 3, 2023/24
[...] In addition to the Network Rail improvement plans listed above, it is important to highlight that there have also been performance improvements to the onboard train software with the next update on the fleet on course to be rolled out from the end of January, which we expect to increase train reliability. The next upgrade of the signalling system software is being refined and tested and is scheduled to be completed in June of this year.
Central Line train shortages:
[...] We are experiencing an abnormally high number of motor failures that has required us to take a high number of trains out of service. Our engineers are urgently working to repair and overhaul the damaged motors, but this is a complex process undertaken by highly skilled, specialist technicians and the removal and refitting of every motor requires the 30-year-old train to be split into separate sections and the affected cars lifted.Alongside the repair work, we have put in place additional arrangements to increase our supply of spare motors; this will enable us to start to rebuild some resilience and improve services over the coming weeks, reducing the number of trains out-of-service and meaning we can return trains to service more quickly.While this should help improve services for customers, the motor failures are still occurring at a higher rate than we have seen before so some disruption to normal service levels is likely to continue. We are continuing to work urgently to identify further solutions.
Bus priority programme:
Progress towards the delivery of 25km of new bus lane by 31 March 2025 has continued, with the current total standing at 5.4km. A new bus lane on the A21 Bromley Road in the London Borough of Lewisham came into operation in early January.We remain on course to deliver 10km of new bus lanes on TfL’s and the borough road network by April 2024. In the next quarter we plan to deliver around three kilometres of new bus lanes on our roads as well as two kilometres of new bus lanes on the borough road network, subject to approvals and programming.We have also started engagement with London boroughs on the development of a robust set of complementary measures targeted at improving bus journey times on Superloop routes. This programme will begin in April 2024 to enable the identification, design and delivery of schemes that contribute to a reliable and efficient service.The bus priority signals programme continues to deliver strong bus journey time benefits. More than 800 bus-focused timing reviews are now in place as part of the two-year programme, delivering more than 14,000 bus passenger hours of time saving each day.
Nothing much new from the previous Finance Commitee update.
The last few items include a survey about TfL perception (or something like that) and reports from two committees.