Traffic control measures on Kenworthy Road, Hackney E9 5RA
Request ID: FOI-2233-2324 Date published: 12 October 2023
You asked
Dear Sirs/Madams
Please provide records of correspondence received/sent by TFL in connection with traffic control and/or public safety on Kenworthy Road E9 5RA (it being a red route controlled by TFL).
Please provide any internal records or memoranda or other documents concerning traffic management and/or public safety on Kenworthy Road E9 5RA .
Please provide traffic and/or safety data in connection with incidents on Kenworthy Road E9 5RA .
In relation to the above requests, please provide responsive information from the past 15 years.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-2233-2324/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 25 September 2023 asking for information about Traffic control measures on Kenworthy Road, Hackney.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy.
I can confirm that we do hold the information you require. 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 requests 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. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
Your request is extremely broad, and covers a long time period. Many teams across TfL could potentially hold relevant information, and they would all need to search for anything which could be considered as traffic / public safety issues.
To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your requests to concentrate on matters which are important to you. If you are interested in the number of collisions recorded for Kenworthy Road, you can find this via our road safety dashboard which can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/road-safety
Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
