FOI request detail

100km Quietway sections/ south-west London

Request ID: FOI-2368-1819
Date published: 04 February 2019

You asked

The Mayor of London answered mayoral question 2018/2877 to say that over 100km of cycling quietway routes have been built, defining built as ‘completed and signposted so that they can form part of the Quietway network.’ I am interested in five sections in the Mayor’s answer in south-west London. a) Wimbledon to Raynes Park, 1.9km b) Earlsfield to Wimbledon, 3.5km c) Clapham Common to Earlsfield, 2.6km d) Clapham Common to Tooting Common, 1.7km, and e) Richmond Park to Teddington, 4.2km. With the Mayor stating that these five sections are “completed and signposted”, please provide the following information for each section. I assume this information will be to hand in the project files: 1. Confirm the overall quietway route that each section belongs to, and the start and end points of each section in terms of specific streets or local landmarks. For example, I assume Clapham Common to Earlsfield section is part of Quietway 4, starts on Windmill Drive and ends near Wandsworth Prison on Heathfield Road. 2. Clarify the types of route-finding signs on each completed route section. Are purple Quietway signs installed, similar to those on Q1 or Q14? Please provide a sample of the signs that have been installed on each route in PDF format. 3. Please confirm the locations of the quietway and route finding signs installed, if the sections are “completed and signposted”. 4. Provide the date when a TfL officer or contractor visited each section and confirmed that works are complete. 5. Alternatively, confirm that the sections have not been finished and few, if any quietway signs, have been installed. Please provide a date when route-finding and quietway number signage is scheduled to be installed. 6. In the case of Wimbledon to Raynes Park, clarify whether this is intended to be an upgrade of LCN208 where no physical upgrade works have taken place. Provide a date when works are scheduled to start and expected to complete.

We answered

 

TfL Ref: FOI-2368-1819

Thank you for your email received by Transport for London (TfL) on 5 December 2018.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations and our information access policy. I can confirm we hold some of the information you require.

The Mayor’s response to a more recent Mayor’s Question clarifies what locations are awaiting wayfinding across the whole current Quietway network. The table included in the Mayor’s response is below:

Table one:

Route Section

Km constructed

Wayfinding

Stratford High St to Beckton High St

5.5

Yes

Ladbroke Grove to East Acton

3.8

Yes

Greenwich to Thames Barrier

2.4

Awaiting

Thames Barrier to Woolwich

2.3

Awaiting

Woolwich to Thamesmead

5.3

Yes

Thamesmead to E and O Warehousing

2.3

Awaiting

Grand Union Canal

10.8

Awaiting

Richmond Park to Teddington

4.2

Awaiting

Clapham Common to Earlsfield

2.6

Awaiting

Earlsfield to Wimbledon

3.5

Awaiting

E&C to Dulwich

3.8

Awaiting

Dulwich to Crystal Palace

0.2

Awaiting

Regent's Park to West Hampstead

1.4

Awaiting

Kilburn to Gladstone Park

4.0

Yes

Oval to Clapham

4.2

Yes

Clapham Common to Tooting Common

1.7

Awaiting

Tooting Common to Norbury

2.8

Awaiting

Norbury to West Croydon Station

2.0

Awaiting

Victoria Park to Wanstead Flats

2.3

Awaiting

Wanstead Flats to Barkingside

7.3

Partial - 5.8 with wayfinding

Bloomsbury to Walthamstow

12

Yes

Waterloo to Greenwich

0.6

Awaiting

Greenwich Park to Catford Station

0.8

Awaiting

Catford to Lower Sydenham

1.2

Awaiting

Bermondsey to Peckham

0.1

Awaiting

Peckham to Catford

0.9

Awaiting

Greenford to Pitshanger Park

1.8

Awaiting

Thames Path to Queen Elizabeth Hospital

0.9

Awaiting

Woolwich Town Centre Spur

2.9

Awaiting

Wimbledon to Raynes Park

1.9

Awaiting

CS3 to Barking Town Centre

0.9

Awaiting

Greenwich to Falconwood

4.6

Awaiting

Falconwood to Bexleyheath

0.4

Awaiting

Kentish Town to St Pancras

1.6

Yes

Hyde Park to Belgravia

1.1

Yes

South Kensington to Hyde Park

0.4

Yes

Wellington Street

0.9

Yes

Hoxton to Broadway Market

1.5

Yes

West Smithfield to Barbican

1.3

Yes

CS3 to Moorgate

2.0

Yes

Bute St/Harrington Rd to Imperial College Rd/Exhibition Rd

0.6

Yes

Dovehouse St/Cale St to Royal Ave/St Leonard’s Terrace

1.1

Yes

Kensington Court to Harrington Gdns

1.4

Yes

Brompton Cemetery/Old Brompton Rd to Bute St/Harrington Road

1.4

Yes

Kings Rd/Oakley St to Albert Bridge

0.4

Yes

Blackfriars to Tower Bridge Road

2.1

Yes

Hackney Road to Calvert Ave

0.9

Yes

Cornwall Road

0.6

Yes

Rotten Row and the Broadwalk

2.6

Yes

Horse Guards Road

1.3

Yes

Rivington Street

0.5

Yes

Lambeth High Street to Oval

0.9

Yes

Quietway 5- Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to South Lambeth Road

0.7

Yes

Lambeth Bridge to Quietway 5

0.3

Yes

You asked:

  1. Confirm the overall Quietway route that each section belongs to, and the start and end points of each section in terms of specific streets or local landmarks. For example, I assume Clapham Common to Earlsfield section is part of Quietway 4, starts on Windmill Drive and ends near Wandsworth Prison on Heathfield Road.

Please find the information in the below table;

Table two:

Section

Overall Quietway

Start

End

Wimbledon to Raynes Park

Wimbledon to New Malden (no number yet allocated)

A219 Wimbledon Bridge

B203 Coombe Road

Earlsfield to Wimbledon

Quietway 4

Windmill Drive

Queen’s Road near Wimbledon Station

Clapham Common to Earlsfield

Quietway 4

Windmill Drive

Queen’s Road near Wimbledon Station

Clapham Common to Tooting Common

Quietway 5

The Cut

A23 London Road

Richmond Park to Teddington

Quietway 21

Heathfield Road

Teddington Lock

  1. Clarify the types of route-finding signs on each completed route section. Are purple Quietway signs installed, similar to those on Q1 or Q14? Please provide a sample of the signs that have been installed on each route in PDF format.

Please see table one above. All five of the sections you specify are awaiting wayfinding and therefore we do not hold the information requested.

  1. Please confirm the locations of the quietway and route finding signs installed, if the sections are “completed and signposted”.

Please see table one above. All five of the sections you specify are awaiting wayfinding and therefore we do not hold the information requested.

  1. Provide the date when a TfL officer or contractor visited each section and confirmed that works are complete.

Please see table one above and our response below. As these sections are awaiting wayfinding, a TfL officer or contractor has not yet visited site to confirm work completion.

  1. Alternatively, confirm that the sections have not been finished and few, if any quietway signs, have been installed. Please provide a date when route-finding and quietway number signage is scheduled to be installed.

The sections have not been finished and few Quietway signs have been installed on these sections.

  1. Wimbledon to Raynes Park, 1.9km

This route is under review due to large scale property development considerations within the area. With this, we do not currently have a confirmed date for the implementation of wayfinding.

  1. b) Earlsfield to Wimbledon, 3.5km

We are working with LB Wandsworth to review the quality of this route, including the crossing of Garratt Lane. There is currently no confirmed date for signage and wayfinding.

  1. Clapham Common to Earlsfield, 2.6km

We are working with LB Wandsworth to review the quality of this route, including the crossing of Garratt Lane. There is currently no confirmed date for signage and wayfinding.

  1. Clapham Common to Tooting Common, 1.7km

The schemes on this section have been constructed. Wayfinding of the section will be installed once the paths through Tooting Bec Common and Wandsworth Common have been widened and cycling on them has been permitted by the Secretary of State.

  1. Richmond Park to Teddington, 4.2km

Following a review of quality on this route, the delivery timescales have been extended. Final detailed design is currently underway, with construction planned to commence in early 2019. Signing will be installed once all construction has been finished.

  1. In the case of Wimbledon to Raynes Park, clarify whether this is intended to be an upgrade of LCN208 where no physical upgrade works have taken place. Provide a date when works are scheduled to start and expected to complete.

The Wimbledon to Raynes Park Quietway route was intended to be an upgrade of LCN 208. Vegetation clearance and removal of localised narrow pinch points along a 1.9km section of the route took place between January and November 2017. Further upgrades of the route on this section, including improved lighting and schemes between Lower Downs Road and West Barnes Lane, were planned to be constructed in 2018. However, due to property development considerations in the local area, the scope of the Wimbledon to Raynes Park Quietway route is under review; therefore there is currently no date set for implementation of signage and wayfinding.

The Cycling Action Plan, launched in December 2018, states that all new signed strategic cycle routes in the capital will have to meet strict new quality standards for boroughs to receive funding for routes.

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Eva Hextall

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

 

The Mayor of London answered mayoral question 2018/2877 to say that over 100km of cycling quietway routes have been built, defining built as ‘completed and signposted so that they can form part of the Quietway network.’

I am interested in five sections in the Mayor’s answer in south-west London.

a)Wimbledon to Raynes Park, 1.9km

b)Earlsfield to Wimbledon, 3.5km

c)Clapham Common to Earlsfield, 2.6km

d)Clapham Common to Tooting Common, 1.7km, and

e)Richmond Park to Teddington, 4.2km.

With the Mayor stating that these five sections are “completed and signposted”, please provide the following information for each section. I assume this information will be to hand in the project files:

1.Confirm the overall quietway route that each section belongs to, and the start and end points of each section in terms of specific streets or local landmarks. For example, I assume Clapham Common to Earlsfield section is part of Quietway 4, starts on Windmill Drive and ends near Wandsworth Prison on Heathfield Road.

2.Clarify the types of route-finding signs on each completed route section. Are purple Quietway signs installed, similar to those on Q1 or Q14? Please provide a sample of the signs that have been installed on each route in PDF format.

3.Please confirm the locations of the quietway and route finding signs installed, if the sections are “completed and signposted”.

4.Provide the date when a TfL officer or contractor visited each section and confirmed that works are complete.

5.Alternatively, confirm that the sections have not been finished and few, if any quietway signs, have been installed. Please provide a date when route-finding and quietway number signage is scheduled to be installed.

6.In the case of Wimbledon to Raynes Park, clarify whether this is intended to be an upgrade of LCN208 where no physical upgrade works have taken place. Provide a date when works are scheduled to start and expected to complete.

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