Road maintenance spend
Request ID: FOI-1672-2021
Date published: 07 December 2020
You asked
This is an FOI request relating to road maintenance.
Please advise how much was spent on road maintenance for each of the last three financial years.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1672-2021
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 23 November 2020.
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 the information you require. You asked:
Please advise how much was spent on road maintenance for each of the last three financial years.
We have spent the following amounts on road maintenance over the last three financial years;
2017/18 £29,110,705.22
2018/19 £28,849,904.82
2019/20 £28,911,465.95
Please note these figures include our main highways contract lump sums payments for maintenance and the ordered maintenance spend. This covers a range of road related maintenance activities such as safety inspections, cleaning, signs, road markings, drainage, lighting, winter gritting, emergency call outs, vegetation and tree maintenance as well as the standard footway and carriageway maintenance.
In addition to this, we have spent the following as part of our asset renewal work over the last three financial years;
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Asset
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2017/18
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2018/19
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2019/20
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Carriageways
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£18m
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£0.29m
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£16m
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Footways
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£1.8m
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£0.1m
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£0.02m
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Eva Hextall
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
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