Andrea Casalotti, Vision Zero London - European Mobility Week 2015 - Transparency is Necessary
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Transcript of Andrea Casalotti, Vision Zero London - European Mobility Week 2015 - Transparency is Necessary
Transparency… or lack of
Andrea Casalotti. Vision Zero London
Lack of transparency
Impunity
Violence
Why don’t people cycle?
A hostile environment for pedestrians...
putting convenience of drivers first...
forcing pedestrians to take risks
Ben JohnsonSenior Delivery Planning Manager at Transport for London, in charge of Road Safety
“Transport for London has adopted Vision Zero”
As a result of TfL policies
A massacre of innocent people
Terrorism in Paris and in London
2015 - Charlie Hebdo17 innocent victims
2015 - at least 23 innocent people killed by traffic violence
How is it different?
TfL knows Oxford Street is lethal
but will do nothing about it, because they don’t want to delay buses.
Killers for an ideology
They killed for a warped view of Islam
They keep on killing to feather their nests
Hendy & Daniels don’t want you to know
It took two years of dogged campaigning by TfL Bus crash survivor Tom Kearney to force TfL to publish KSI data from its Bus operations...
and the results were shocking!
● Average Number of TfL Bus Collision KSIs per day: 1.5
● 2014 - ten fatalities involving buses
No wonder Hendy & Daniels were not keen for these figures to be in the public domain!
and the cause is simple
Only 8.2% of TfL Performance bonuses to its top Officers is dependent on reduction of KSIs
TfL prevents improvements in safety
● Does not want bus drivers to join CIRAS● Does not investigate allegations of
dangerous driving of buses● Does not want you to know how many
pedestrians are killed, and where.… because “people’s lives are a price worth paying to smooth traffic flow”
Coroners courts also lack transparency
Mary Hassell, Chief Coroner at St Pancras tries all tricks to prevent us from attending to inquests of slain pedestrians and cyclists
In December we asked TfL to publish
1. The results of all investigations of KSIs on the roads2. The names of all pedestrians killed (within seven days of their death), just like they do for cyclists 3. The results of investigations carried out by contracted bus companies
They refused to answer.
Vision Zero London’s goal is to
● Open the tin can with all its rotten content
● Name and shame the people who know their policies kill us but are happy to continue in their evil deeds
Join the fight for a safe London to walk and cycle
VisionZeroLondon.org
