FOI request detail

Freedom of Information request - Removal of pedestrian crossing signals

Request ID: FOI-2329-2122
Date published: 07 February 2022

You asked

Dear Transport for London, I have noticed that several crossing have had their push button/green man lights removed for pedestrians and not replaced. For example part of the crossing on the A10 (where it crosses Carterhatch Lane), Green Lanes (where it crosses the A111) and Southbury Road (Baird Rd crossing). Please can you provide a list of all the places where this has happened in Enfield over the last 3 years. Also please can you explain why these have been removed and then not replaced.

We answered

TfL Ref: 2329-2122

Thank you for your request received by us on 11 January 2022 asking for information about pedestrian crossing signals in Enfield.

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 for the following:

I have noticed that several crossing have had their push button/green man lights removed for pedestrians and not replaced. For example part of the crossing on the A10 (where it crosses Carterhatch Lane), Green Lanes (where it crosses the A111) and Southbury Road (Baird Rd crossing). 

Please can you provide a list of all the places where this has happened in Enfield over the last 3 years.

Also please can you explain why these have been removed and then not replaced. 

We can advise that for the above locations mentioned in your request, starting with the junction of Carterhatch Lane and the Great Cambridge Road, this vicinity has signalised pedestrian and cycle crossing across the eastern side of Carterhatch Lane. There are no signalised crossing facilities across Great Cambridge Road on the A10, or the western side of Carterhatch Lane. Moreover, these crossings have never been fitted with signalised pedestrian fittings since 1995, which is as far as our records go back in this area.

There have also never been signalised pedestrian at the junction of Green Lanes, Bourne Hill, Hedge Lane and Borough Road according to our records, which date back to 2006.

At the junction of Southbury Road, Baird Road and Borough Road, we can confirm that this junction has signalised pedestrian facilities across Southbury Road on the westside and the southside of Baird Road since at least 1998. Additional push buttons were added on the small islands on the western side of Southbury Road, in addition to the southern side of Baird Road in 2010, when the site was modernised. Whilst the northern side of Baird Road does not have a signalised pedestrian crossing, neither does the eastern aspect across Southbury Road.

However, to provide a complete list of all the places where push button/green man lights have been removed for pedestrians and not replaced for every location in Enfield over the last three years, would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Given the way our data is held we would have to extract, review and cross reference the design of each and every traffic signal project in the Enfield area over the last three years to determine whether a push button had been removed.

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Yours sincerely



Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
 

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