High Holborn Pedestrian Crossing Push Button Units Rotating Cones Missings.
Request ID: FOI-2784-2122 Date published: 17 March 2022
You asked
High Holborn Pedestrian Crossing Push Button Units Rotating Cones Missings.
How many of the pedestrian crossings on High Holborn have pedestrian push button units which lack the required rotating cones?
Why are the rotating cones missing?
When will this defect be rectified?
How many other pedestrian crossings are there in London that lack the required push button unit rotating cones?
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-2784-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 7th March 2022 asking for information about pedestrian crossing push button units.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“How many of the pedestrian crossings on High Holborn have pedestrian push button units which lack the required rotating cones?
Why are the rotating cones missing?
When will this defect be rectified?
How many other pedestrian crossings are there in London that lack the required push button unit rotating cones?”
I can confirm that we hold the information you require. However, it is not possible to source the information to answer your request within the costs limit for responding to cases set out under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act. Under section 12 TfL is not required to provide information if it would cost more than £450 to determine if that information is held, and to then locate, retrieve or extract that information from elsewhere. This is calculated at a rate of £25 per hour. The costs limit apllies largely on account of your last question.
There are currently 5,216 sites with pedestrian facilities across Greater London. We have approximately 36,282 push button units and 31,196 tactile units across all our signal sites. Tactile cones are only required to be fitted in the button on the right hand side of the crossing points and not on the islands which is why there is a difference in the numbers. However, our information system is unable to automatically determine if applicable sites are not fitted with the required cones. In order to extract this information we would have to review the records for every traffic signal site individually, which would take well in excess of the costs limit.
In order to bring your request within the costs limit you may wish to narrow its scope to focus on the information that is of most importance to you - for example, by requesting information about a specific site rather than across London as a whole.
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Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
