I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in respect of the implementation of the recent changes to bus lanes which exclude licensed taxis (hackney carriages), Dial A Ride and Motorcycles on Euston Road eastbound, Hampstead Road and Tottenham Court Road and the associated restricted turns into Upper Woburn Place and Euston Road respectively: Copies of Road Safety Audits Copies of reports of Network, Junction and Traffic Modelling All correspondence with the Emergency Services about the road schemes· Environmental Impact Assessments Public Sector Equalities Impact Assessment I look forward to your reply and receiving the documents within the required deadline.

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TfL Ref: 0788-2021

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 10 August 2020 asking for information about the implementation of the recent changes to bus lanes which exclude licensed taxis (hackney carriages), Dial A Ride and Motorcycles on Euston Road eastbound, Hampstead Road and Tottenham Court Road and the associated restricted turns into Upper Woburn Place and Euston Road.  

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.

You asked:  I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in respect of the implementation of the recent changes to bus lanes which exclude licensed taxis (hackney carriages), Dial A Ride and Motorcycles on Euston Road eastbound, Hampstead Road and Tottenham Court Road and the associated restricted turns into Upper Woburn Place and Euston Road respectively:

Copies of Road Safety Audits

Copies of reports of Network, Junction and Traffic Modelling

All correspondence with the Emergency Services about the road schemes

Environmental Impact Assessments

Public Sector Equalities Impact Assessment

However, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.

In order to provide the information you have requested in the part of your request where you ask for ‘all correspondence with the Emergency Services about the road schemes’, we would have to carry out broad searches of all correspondence held within our email archive to make sure we locate all the relevant correspondence you have asked for. The need to carry out such a search of this nature is because the information you have asked for is potentially held across multiple parts of the organisation and within different project teams with different document storage systems.

It is likely that this email search would generate a significant volume of potential ‘hits’  - a ‘hit’ refers to an email found within our IT system that potentially fits within the scope of your request. Many of the hits are likely to be not relevant or duplicates, due to emails being repeated within email chains or to multiple people. Therefore the actual number of emails covered by your request will be a sub-set of these hits. However, locating those that are relevant would require us to manually review all of them to determine whether the email, or email chain, is relevant to your request and then we would need to extract and compile all of those that meet your request. As a result, we have therefore estimated that to manually locate, extract and collate all of the relevant emails caught by such a wide ranging search would considerably exceed the cost limit.

To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. For example, by focusing on one particular aspect of the subject matter or for a narrowed period of time, between specific individuals and a more specific keyword.  In accordance with our duty to provide you with advice and assistance in refining a revised request, we can advise that it is likely we can help if you submit a revised request asking for some or all of the other documents you have asked for in your original request.

The impact of current circumstances on TfL’s resources means we are not able to answer FOI requests readily and we ask that you please do not make a request to us at present.

Answering FOI requests will require the use of limited resources and the attention of staff who could be supporting other essential activity. In any event, please note that our response time will be affected by the current situation.

Please note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.

In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Sara Thomas

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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