Bus Stop bypasses FOI to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust

In respect of the trust’s opposition to bus stop bypasses (BSBs), also known as floating bus stops:

1. What research has the trust conducted, in order to determine that bus stop bypasses are unsafe?
2. To which locations, if any, have trust staff made visits, in order to see examples of bus stop bypasses in action?
3. What research has the trust conducted into cycling as a form of mass transit that is open to all users, regardless of age, gender or disability, as opposed to the cycling demographic in the UK?
4. What scientific tests have been applied to this research, for example:
   1. Peer review of available data.
   2. Published studies showing accident rates at locations with and without BSBs.
5. What studies, if any, has the trust undertaken, to determine the risks of conventional bus stops, in respect of:
   1. Their usage by pedestrians, including vulnerable pedestrians.
   2. Their usage by cyclists.
   3. The risks to bus passengers from onboard accidents, including trips due to harsh braking by the driver to avoid passing cyclists.
   4. The risk to boarding bus passengers from cyclists under taking buses.
6. How has the trust equated the risk between the claimed dis-benefits of BSBs, and the advantages they offer to each party?
7. What methodology has been applied to all of the above, to ensure that the claims made against BSBs are robust, and subject to the same intellectual rigour that the trust would apply when ascertaining the risks to patients from procedures carried out inside the hospital?

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