NEW FOI Request Submitted Directly to TfGM After GMCA Internal Review — The Fight for Bus Safety Transparency Continues
Over the last few months, I’ve been pursuing something that should be simple, obvious, and automatic in any publicly-controlled transport system: The publication of bus safety performance data. This is the same information Transport for London has published every quarter since 2014 — without commercial harm, without resistance, and with clear safety improvements. Yet in Greater Manchester, securing equivalent transparency for the Bee Network has become a battle no member of the public should have to fight. --- 🔶 GMCA Internal Review: What Happened On 20 November, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) released its decision following my request for an internal review of their refusal to publish Bee Network bus safety data. Key points: ❌ GMCA dropped their previous Section 43 “commercial sensitivity” argument They admitted the exemption was misapplied. ❌ They still failed to release the safety data Not because it is commercially sensitive — but because they now claim it isn’t ...