FOI request regarding a road safety audit report conducted at the intersection of Stanstead Road and Cranston road.
Request ID: FOI-0259-2122 Date published: 01 June 2021
You asked
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act I wish to request information regarding a road safety audit that was previously conducted at the yellow box junction located at the intersection of Stanstead Road and Cranston road, following the removal of guardrails.
Specifically, I wish to have access to the full road safety audit report/study
We answered
TfL Ref 0259-2021/22
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 6 May 2021 asking for information about a road safety audit report conducted at the intersection of Stanstead Road and Cranston Road at the yellow box junction. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. You asked for: information regarding a road safety audit that was previously conducted at the yellow box junction located at the intersection of Stanstead Road and Cranston Road, following the removal of guardrails.
The pedestrian guard rail (PGR) was removed in two stages, the first part in around 2010 and the second part between 2012 and 2014, although we believe it likely to have been in 2013 for the removal of the second part.
We have located the road safety audit for the removal of the first part, as attached; however, it is not possible to provide the second audit you have requested within the cost limit as set out in section 12 of the FOI Act. Under section 12, a public authority such as TfL is not required to respond to a request if it would cost more than the £450 limit to determine if the information is held, and to then locate, retrieve or extract that information from elsewhere. This is calculated at a rate of £25 per hour, equivalent to 18 hours work.
We believe that, on the balance of probabilities it is likely we do hold an audit for the removal of the second part of the PGR, but the time and resources it would take to locate, identify and extract it would exceed the cost limit. To explain further, the PGR removal records including Audits were stored on a SharePoint site that was not migrated to the newer version of this system when the project was completed. Whilst we have the backup, we do not have the infrastructure to view it without rebuilding the previous SharePoint system, the cost of which is considered prohibitively expensive and time consuming and would greatly exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.
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Yours sincerely
Sara Thomas FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
