Request ID: FOI-0384-2122 Date published: 02 June 2021
You asked
Please can you provide the Road Safety Audit indicating that protection for pedestrians crossing Chichele Road at the junction with the A5 Cricklewood Broadway in London NW2 can be removed?
The background is that this busy signal-controlled crossroads in the middle of Cricklewood is being realigned. Previously, pedestrians have crossed the Chichele Road exit from the crossroads safely (when the traffic lights are only green for traffic from Chichele Road and not for traffic entering it). We understand that in about September, when realignment of Cricklewood Lane is complete, the phasing of the traffic lights will be changed so that the junction operates as a simple crossroads and there will be no pedestrian lights or other safe phase for pedestrians on the west side of the Broadway.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-0384-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 24th May 2021 asking for a copy of a Road Safety Audit in relation to Chichele Road at the junction with the A5 Cricklewood Broadway. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“Please can you provide the Road Safety Audit indicating that protection for pedestrians crossing Chichele Road at the junction with the A5 Cricklewood Broadway in London NW2 can be removed?
The background is that this busy signal-controlled crossroads in the middle of Cricklewood is being realigned. Previously, pedestrians have crossed the Chichele Road exit from the crossroads safely (when the traffic lights are only green for traffic from Chichele Road and not for traffic entering it). We understand that in about September, when realignment of Cricklewood Lane is complete, the phasing of the traffic lights will be changed so that the junction operates as a simple crossroads and there will be no pedestrian lights or other safe phase for pedestrians on the west side of the Broadway.”
I am afraid that TfL does not hold the requested information as the crossing in question is not part of the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN - sometimes known as the ‘red routes’). More information about the TLRN - including maps - can be found on our website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/red-routes
As the Highways Authority for the Chichele Road / A5 junction is the London Borough of Brent you may wish to re-direct your request to that body. FOI requests to Brent Council can be made via its website here:
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Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
