Request ID: FOI-1104-2425 Date published: 05 August 2024
You asked
Follow up from 0461-2425
documents and discussions relating to Churchway & Eversholt Street banned turn.
Both streets please searching on key words and any documents including emails where the lack of a left turn to access Euston Station taxi rank was referenced.
For Churchway specifically any traffic order documents or notice of making and actual date when the left turn into Churchway was removed including what now appears to be cycles also.
July 2020 to September 2023
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1104-2425
Thank you for your clarified request received on 8 July 2024.
You specifically asked for: Documents and discussions relating to Churchway & Eversholt Street banned turn. Both streets please searching on key words and any documents including emails where the lack of a left turn to access Euston Station taxi rank was referenced. For Churchway specifically any traffic order documents or notice of making and actual date when the left turn into Churchway was removed including what now appears to be cycles also. For the period: July 2020 to September 2023 . Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations and TfL’s information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require. However, we are applying Regulation 12(4)(b) to your request as we believe that the request is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ because locating, extracting and collating all the information you have requested would impose unreasonable costs on us and require an unreasonable diversion of resources.
Information, emails and correspondence is likely to be held electronically in personal email accounts and folders as well as in shared drives therefore the most efficient way of ensuring that we capture all the information being requested is to conduct a company wide email search using one or several key words or phrases. Unfortunately, we have no way of producing a targeted search just for the specific relevant emails you have requested, so we would need to review thousands of emails using the key words of ‘Churchway’ and ‘Evershot’ as a search, in order to locate and collate anything relevant to your request. The use of this exception is subject to a public interest test, which requires us to consider whether the public interest in applying the exception outweighs the public interest in disclosure. We recognise that the release of information would promote accountability and transparency in public services and also help address your particular concerns about this issue. However, the time it would take to provide the information you have requested would divert a disproportionate amount of our resources from its core functions and on balance we consider that the public interest currently favours the use of the exception. We will consider your request again, if you are able to narrow its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. You may find it more beneficial to ask specific questions based on the recorded information we hold, rather than a very broad request for correspondence which is more likely to raise concerns around the resource required to process the request, as well as incorporate information which would be likely to be of limited value. We may be able to provide traffic order documents requested in the second part of your request if you submit a new request and refine your search to just those.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely Sara Thomas FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
