Request ID: FOI-3352-2324 Date published: 27 December 2023
You asked
Can you please provide the number of floating bus stops and shared use bus boarders that are in London, including all the Boroughs, and broken down into the following:
- existing floating bus stops (not including temporary ones put down in lock down)
- existing shared use bus boarders (not including temporary ones put down in lock down)
- temporary existing floating bus stops put down in lockdown
- temporary existing shared use bus boarders put down in lockdown
- floating bus stops being constructed
- shared use bus boarders being constructed
- floating bus stops at the planning stage
- shared use bus boarders at the planning stage
Following on from my last email, could I also please request the following information as part of this review please:
- All Equality Impact Assessments
- All road safety audits available (including Stage 1 Preliminary Design Road Safety Audits, Stage 2 Completion of Detailed Design, Stage 3 Road Safety Audit and Stage 4 Road Safety Audit - depending what stage the development is at ) and any audits undertaken for vulnerable road users.
For any schemes which have the following in please:
- existing floating bus stops (not including temporary ones put down in lock down)
- existing shared use bus boarders (not including temporary ones put down in lock down)
- temporary existing floating bus stops put down in lockdown
- temporary existing shared use bus boarders put down in lockdown
- floating bus stops being constructed
- shared use bus boarders being constructed
- floating bus stops at the planning stage
- shared use bus boarders at the planning stage
I look forward to receiving this information.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-3352-2324GH
Thank you for your requests received by Transport for London (TfL) on 12 November 2023 asking for information about floating bus stops and shared use bus boarders.
Your requests have 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. However, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with requests if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
The information you have requested is not recorded in one central place. To answer your request, we would therefore need to identify all the existing/temporary/planned floating bus stops/bus boarders, over an unspecified time period. Compiling such a list, would be an extensive task, and once we had this information, we would then need to search for and compile the information for each location as asked for in your second request:
- All Equality Impact Assessments - All road safety audits available (including Stage 1 Preliminary Design Road Safety Audits, Stage 2 Completion of Detailed Design, Stage 3 Road Safety Audit and Stage 4 Road Safety Audit - depending what stage the development is at ) and any audits undertaken for vulnerable road users.
To help bring the cost of responding to your requests within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider refining your request to enable us to provide you with some information. We do wish to be of assistance, so you may wish to consider making a request for a specific timeframe or to focus on specific locations.
Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of your request. If you have specific questions relating to these topics we may be more easily able to respond to these than to a request for any information held.
If you are not satisfied with this response 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
