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A new report by the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon reveals:

• Mayor of London has repeatedly made inaccurate and misleading statements in comparing the adoption of electric buses in London with other cities
• London now lags behind a number of cities in its current adoption of electric buses
• Every five weeks China deploys 9,500 electric buses onto its roads – matching the entire size of London’s current bus fleet

Questions to the Mayor of London by Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat Londonwide Assembly Member, have revealed:

• Between 1 January 2016 to 30 November 2018 there were 71 recorded bus collisions involving pedestrians at a designated pedestrian crossing.
• Collisions involving buses at pedestrian crossings are taking place in London almost every fortnight on average
• Pedestrian collisions involving buses have taken place in almost every London Borough

Caroline Pidgeon, Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member, commenting on the Mayor of London’s appointment of Councillor Lib Peck, the Labour leader of Lambeth Council, as the first head of the Violence Reduction Unit at City Hall, said: