Request ID: FOI-2506-2122 Date published: 21 February 2022
You asked
Please can I have stats for Blackwall Tunnel as below;
How many times per month in 2019, 2020, 2021 has Blackwall tunnel closed for any amount of time?
Number of times the tunnel in each year was Blackwall tunnel closed for under 30mins:
Number of times the tunnel in each year was Blackwall tunnel closed for over 30mins:
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-2506-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 1st February 2022 asking for information about the Blackwall Tunnel.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“Please can I have stats for Blackwall Tunnel as below;
How many times per month in 2019, 2020, 2021 has Blackwall tunnel closed for any amount of time? Number of times the tunnel in each year was Blackwall tunnel closed for under 30mins: Number of times the tunnel in each year was Blackwall tunnel closed for over 30mins.”
I can confirm that we hold the information you require. The information is provided in the table below. Note that this includes some partial closures of the tunnel where individual lanes were closed (it is not possible to separate the full and partial closures for the timeframe specified within the £450 costs limit for responding to FOI cases):
Month
Count of Closures Under 30 Minutes
Count of Closures Over 30 Minutes
2019
January
323
14
February
325
9
March
453
8
April
309
9
May
330
4
June
336
10
July
328
11
August
405
13
September
361
2
October
394
7
November
267
10
December
290
10
2020
January
309
6
February
345
7
March
280
6
April
283
1
May
294
5
June
234
2
July
325
6
August
320
4
September
310
3
October
344
6
November
59
1
December
270
4
2021
January
227
10
February
127
1
March
137
57
April
223
84
May
213
73
June
191
78
July
266
83
August
222
71
September
262
12
October
251
10
November
317
27
December
240
7
If this is not the information you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
