Cycle Infrastructure
Dear Newham Borough Council,
I am writing to request the answers to the following questions, on
the subject of cycling within your borough, under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
1. What percentage of your borough's total road kilometres consists
of fully, hard segregated cycle routes?
2. How many total kilometres of fully, hard segregated cycle routes
does this equate to?
3. Since the 6th of May 2010, how much money in pounds sterling has
been spent from your borough's transport budget on creating further
fully, hard segregated cycle routes?
4. In relation to the above question, what percentage of your total
transport spend within your borough for the named period did this
constitute?
5. For the period between the 1st of April 2014 and the 31st of
March 2015, how much total money in pounds sterling from your
borough's transport budget has been or will be allocated to
creating further fully, hard segregated cycle routes?
6. For the period mentioned in question 5, what percentage of your
borough's transport budget does this constitute?
7. What percentage of road kilometres under your sole control are
20mph roads?
8. Aside from the above mentioned, what other initiatives is your
borough undertaking to improve the safety of cyclists on roads
under your authority?
In this instance, hard segregation means where there is a kerb
separating the standard road surface from the cycleway. It does not
include shared footpath and cyclepath routes where this is no
separation between the footway and the cycleway. Please only
include cycleways that are solely under your council's control for
this figure.
Total road kilometres is the distance of standard roads that are
accessible to motorised vehicles, in addition to the distance of
hard-segregated cycleways as described in the above paragraph.
Please only include roads and cycleways that are solely under your
council's control in this calculation.
Please email your responses in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet within
20 working days of this request being submitted, that is to say by
the 28th of February 2014.
Yours faithfully,
Will Nickell
REQUESTER REFERENCE: C9084
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E18184
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information received on 31/01/2014. We are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 28/02/2014.
If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information Governance Team on 020 8430 2000 or email us at: [email address]
Yours Faithfully
Information Governance Team
Newham Council
Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk
Dear Sir/Madam,
Further to our email acknowledgement, we write to advise you there will be a delay in responding to you, whilst we wait for further information to enable us to respond to your request more fully.
We will endeavour to reply to you as soon as possible.
Information Governance Team
London Borough of Newham
Dear Mr Nickell,
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you. Please now find attached our response under the disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team on (020) 8430 2000 or email us at [email address].
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Yours sincerely,
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
[email address]
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