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FOI request detail

Bus Lane Travel on Christmas Day

Request ID: FOI-3311-2425
Date published: 16 January 2025

You asked

Hi, Good afternoon I wish to know if you 'enforce' bus/tram, lanes/gates on Christmas Day, when no buses or trams (whichever is applicable) are in operation? I am asking this same question to a number of Councils across the UK to find out what their policy is on enforcing contraventions on Christmas Day? I have been informed by Tower Hamlets Borough Council that Transport for London enforce red route bus lanes and therefore they are unable to answer whether these bus lanes are enforced or not on Christmas Day. Does Transport for London enforce red route bus lanes on Christmas Day? Please can you reply through these lines as I have picked up on a tfl web page that it is permissible and I want to know if this is still the case the link to the tfl page is: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-2051-1718

We answered

Our ref: FOI-3311-2425/GH

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 15 January 2024 asking for information about bus lane enforcement on Christmas day.

 

Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.

 

There was no exemption for driving in bus lanes in place on Christmas Day. 

 

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

 

Yours sincerely

 

Graham Hurt

 

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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