Mayor of London Transport Strategy - Consultation Process - How many aware within LB Bromley?

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Further to your FOI request dated 15 January, the Council's response is as
follows -

Please explain the steps that Bromley Council took with TfL to make the
public aware of consultation into the Draft Mayor of London Transport
Strategy.

(1) What publicity was undertaken across LB Bromley by TfL and by LB
Bromley?

(2) What was published that explained the Draft Strategy and the
consultation process and how were these made available?

(3) What steps were taken to try to ensure a balanced cross-section of the
public was made aware of the process?

(4) Where were leaflets distributed, and how was this decided? What
analysis suggested this would lead to a fair and balanced distribution
across the community?

(5) What steps were taken to ensure that hard-to-reach sections of the
community, such as those who travel exclusively by private car, were made
aware of the consultation process and encouraged to participate in it?

Response to Questions 1 - 5

The Strategy, and consultation upon it, are the Mayor of London's
statutory responsibility. These questions should be addressed to the
Mayor's office, or to TfL, who undertook the consultation on the Mayor's
behalf.

(6) What consultation discussions took place between LB Bromley and TfL
over how this process would operate? To what extent was the council
consulted over the detail of the consultation, and what views did it
express?

Response to Question 6

There were no discussions over the detail of the consultation. There was a
brief officer-to-officer telephone discussion over the arrangements made
by TfL for a one-day exhibition at Bromley Central Library.

(7) Is the council happy with the consultation process? Was the council
happy that the online questionnaire was so flagrantly biased? Was the
council happy that were responders allowed to pick as many as they chose
from an uncosted wish-list?

Response to Question 7

The Council was unhappy with the process insofar a the conversation
referred to at Question 6 above concerned TfL's failure to inform the
Council's transportation staff directly about the proposed exhibition,
rather than simply booking the exhibition space through the Libraries
service.

The Council has not taken a view on the design of the questionnaires as
this is a matter for the Mayor.

(7) What steps were taken to inform and involve organisations likely to
have an interest?

Response to Question 7 (second version)

See response to Questions 1 - 5.

(8) What programme of meetings was organised? Did Bromley Council ask TfL
to attend meetings of the council's Neighbourhood Partnerships, and how
many did receive reports on the consultation from TfL?

Response to Question 8

None and No

(9) How many meetings took place within LB Bromley between TfL and the
council as part of the consultation process? What about with local groups
in LB Bromley?

Response to Question 9

None

(10) What pre-consultation took place with interested parties to ensure
that the process was fair and balanced?

Response to Question 10

See response to Questions 1 - 5.

(11) Does the council support a MTS consultation on the Draft Mayor of
London Transport Strategy that offers so little for the driver - private
motorist or professional driver of taxi, minicab, van, lorry or bus? How
important are private drivers in the overall use of transport in Bromley?
Has the council expressed concerns over this unfair and unbalanced aspect
of the consultation process?

(12) Does the council support a MTS in which the promotion of cycling
within the draft MTS does not also include warnings on the dangers of this
mode? Does the council support the proposition that a mass switch to
cycling would be beneficial justified, and on what evidence?

(13) Does the council support a MTS consultation in which costings of
various suggestions were not put forward, so that the public could see how
much tax each would entail?

(14) Does the council support a MTS consultation in which there was no
question on the level of subsidy that each mode should receive?

(15) Does the council support a MTS consultation in which no question is
asked as to whether the users of a mode should bear all, most, some or
whatever proportion of the costs of providing that mode?

(16) What representations has or will the council make regarding the
consultation process into the Draft MTS as a result of this enquiry or
otherwise?

Response to Questions 11 - 16

The Council's response to the Mayor's draft Transport Strategy was
considered by the Executive Portfolio Holder for the Environment at a
formal meeting held at Bromley Civic Centre on 5th January 2010. The
papers for that meeting can be found at the following link:

[2]http://sharepoint.bromley.gov.uk/Shared%...

At the meeting, the Portfolio Holder determined that a final version of
the response would be agreed between him and the Council's Director of
Environmental Services.

The final version as submitted to TfL can be found at the following link:

[3]http://www.bromley.gov.uk/transportandst...

The Council has no other formal views on the Mayor's draft Transport
Strategy.

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Dear Ms Black

Just to be explicit, these items are the responsibility of the Mayor of London and Bromley did not take any steps to publicise the Draft MTS.

Iain Forbes

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Iain Forbes
Head of Transport Strategy
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING DIVISION
Environmental Services Department
London Borough of Bromley
Room N72, North Block
Civic Centre
Stockwell Close
BR1 3UH

Tel: 020 8461 7595
Fax: 020 8313 4555
email: [email address]
Website: www.bromley.gov.uk

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