Our Ref:          FOI-2396-1718

Thank you for your request received on 23 November 2017 asking for information about Tooting Bec Gardens.

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. You asked:

1. Please can you provide the latest data pertaining to air quality on Tooting Bec Gardens (A214), SW16. Please provide the latest recorded figures along with any available data over the last 10 years.

If no air quality data is available for Tooting Bec Gardens (A214) then please provide details of how and when TFL has assessed air quality on this stretch of the TFL managed network.

There is no air quality monitor at this location to provide recorded air quality figures. Air pollution in London is modelled through the London Atmospheric Emissions inventory (LAEI). The most recent version of the inventory was released in 2016. The LAEI is a database of geographically referenced datasets of pollutant emissions and sources in Greater London. The base year for the current LAEI is 2013, with back projections to 2008 and 2010, and forward projections to 2020, 2025 and 2030.

The LAEI2013 includes the following key pollutant emissions:
• Nitrogen oxides (NOx);
• Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < 10 μm (PM10);
• Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 μm (PM2.5); and
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Data is modelled and calibrated against the existing network of monitors in London. Full modelled road link data is available online:

https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-atmospheric-emissions-inventory-2013
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/llaqm-bespoke-borough-by-borough-air-quality-modelling-and-data

2. Please provide details of any decisions taken by TFL with regards to traffic management measures on Tooting Bec Gardens (A214), especially as they relate to issues of congestion, idle vehicles and unauthorised use of pedestrian pavements by motorised vehicles.

We recently consulted on proposals for a bus lane in Tooting Bec Gardens as well as road safety proposals at the junction outside St Leonard’s Church. This would involve the removal of some on-carriageway parking bays. We also propose to remove an existing bus stand, which will result in a reduction in vehicles idling. The existing bus stop will remain. Details of this scheme are available at the following link, with the consultation report to be published shortly.

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/st-leonards/

3. Please provide any data available regarding disruption and delay caused to emergency service vehicles using Tooting Bec Gardens (A214) as a result of congestion.

Emergency vehicles would be able to use the proposed bus lane in Tooting Bec Gardens (as it is the case with all bus lanes in London). TfL envisages that the removal of parking and introduction of the bus lane will assist emergency vehicle response times. No vehicles are allowed to mount the footway in Tooting Bec Gardens, although they are permitted to cross over the footway where there are dropped kerbs. An element of the proposed scheme is to provide a relocated and inset disabled parking bay. This will be supported by a traffic regulation order so that this facility can be enforced. We do not hold information on the delay arising to emergency vehicles in Tooting Bec Gardens. We suggest that you approach the emergency services directly on this matter.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please feel free to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Jacob
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

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