segregated cycle lanes
Request ID: FOI-1990-1617
Date published: 06 March 2017
You asked
Please send me:
1. The total distance of segregated cycle lanes currently in operation on TFL managed roads, broken down by London borough.
2. The total distance of segregated cycle lanes which have been constructed on TFL managed roads in the last five years, broken down by London borough.
3. The total distance of segregated cycle lanes planned for construction on TFL managed roads in the next five years, broken down by London borough.
I would like the information to be provided to me in electronic form.
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the act you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.
If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1990-1617
Thank you for your email received by us on 15 January 2017 asking for information about segregated cycle lanes.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy.
Unfortunately, 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.
We have estimated that it would cost £2,025 to provide a response to your current request. This is because it is estimated that it would take 81 working hours to retrieve and compile the information you have requested.
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.
To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope to segregated lanes built in the last 5 years. We can calculate for the distance of segregated cycle lanes in the Cycle Superhighways programme. It would not be broken down by London Borough, and we could not confirm that the distance only applied to the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN) as some segregated lengths of Cycle Superhighways fall on borough roads. We could however tell you which Cycle Superhighways are included in the measurements and which boroughs they are routed through.
If you want to refine your request or make a Freedom of Information Act request in future, please bear in mind that the Freedom of Information Act allows you to request recorded information held by us. You should identify the information that you want as clearly and concisely as you can, specifying the types of document that you are looking for. You might also consider limiting your request to a particular period of time, geographical area or specific departments of the organisation.
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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 as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely
Paulina Tuffour
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
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