Thank you for your email received by us on 15 February 2017 asking for further information in response to your previous request about passenger loading activity of various bus routes and analysis of pedestrian movement.
The following part of your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy:
Correspondence relating to the decision to not analyse pedestrian movements, which formed the substantive element of the enquiry.
We do not hold this information. As part of our capacity surveys, we gather boarding and alighting data and passenger loading figures because these surveys focus on passengers using the services in question, rather than pedestrian movements. We would not as a matter of course record pedestrian movements as part of these surveys since they are not using the bus, and the review could not take this into account. We review passenger numbers (alighting and boarding) and on bus figures (loads) as this is the information we collect, not pedestrian numbers. The only comparative data we hold is on passenger boarding, and we do not usually record this data during capacity surveys.
Please accept our apologies that we are unable to assist you further on this occasion.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
Information Governance
Transport For London
Thank you for the response. However, I wish to appeal and make a further freedom of information request.
The information you provided was useful, but my specific request was for the analysis of bus loadings on routes 279, 349 & 491 noted in the 12th August email from David Raynor that is copied below. This was not provided, what I received was historic data prior to this. In particular I wanted to know what dates the loading review was taken noted by David Raynor with the suspicion it was done during school holidays, when loadings are lighter, along with the actual data.
Furthermore, I have a request for the results of the analysis of passenger loading activity referred to in the email I received, 30th January 2017, shown below, and correspondance relating to the decision to not analyse pedestrian movements, which formed the substantive element of the enquiry.
