Cycle Infrastructure

Will Nickell made this Freedom of Information request to Redbridge Borough Council

This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was successful.

Dear Redbridge 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

Sheila Sonagara, Redbridge Borough Council

Dear Mr Nickell,

I acknowledge your request for information received on 30^th January 2014.

The London Borough of Redbridge is in the process of pro-actively
publishing the datasets of information that we hold on our website,
Redbridge i.  Some of the information will be exempt under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 or Data Protection Act 1998, and this will be removed
or redacted.  You may wish to look at the website to see if the
information you want is already available – you can search the datasets
using a user friendly tool we have developed called Datashare and for your
convenience, this is a link to that tool: [1]http://data.redbridge.gov.uk/
.

In the meantime, your request is being considered and you will receive the
information requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as
defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the information
not being exempt or containing a reference to a third party.

If appropriate, the information may be provided in paper copy, normal font
size. If you require alternative formats, e.g. language, audio, large
print, etc. then please let me know.

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions that may
prevent release of the information you have requested. There will be an
assessment and if any of the exemption categories apply then the
information will not be released. You will be informed if this is the
case, including your rights of appeal.

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then
they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to
release the information to you. You will be informed if this is the case.

There may a fee payable for this information. This will be considered and
you will be informed if a fee is payable. In this event the fee must be
paid before the information is processed and released. The 20 working day
time limit for responses is suspended until receipt of the payment.

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Information
Officer at London Borough of Redbridge, Town Hall, PO Box 2, High Road,
Ilford, Essex, telephone 0208 708 2331, e-mail [2][Redbridge Borough Council request email]

Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner
at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 
Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Sonagara

 

show quoted sections

Sheila Sonagara, Redbridge Borough Council

Dear Mr Nickell,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Your request for information has now been considered by Highways and Cleansing
Services and the information requested is detailed below. 

 

Q1. What percentage of your borough's total road kilometres consists of fully,
hard segregated cycle routes?

A) Total Carriageway length 530 km, hard segregated cycle route 2 km = less than
1%

 

Q2. How many total kilometres of fully, hard segregated cycle routes does this
equate to?

A) Hard Segregated cycle route 2 km.

 

Q3. 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?

A) Borough Transport Budget  expenditure £ 0

 

Q4. In relation to the above question, what percentage of your total transport
spend within your borough for the named period did this constitute?

A) % in relation to Borough transport spend 0 %

 

Q5. 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?

A) Predicted Borough expenditure on hard segregated cycle routes £0

 

Q6. For the period mentioned in question 5, what percentage of your borough's
transport budget does this constitute?

A) % in relation to Borough transport 0 %

 

Q7. What percentage of road kilometres under your sole control are 20mph
roads?

A)  Total Carriageway length 530 km, 20 mph roads 95.84 km (estimated as
at end March 2014) = less than 1%

 

Q8. Aside from the above mentioned, what other initiatives is your borough
undertaking to improve the safety of cyclists on roads under your
authority?

A) Other cycle related safety initiatives in Borough, may be retrieved
from the following;

(i)                 Local Implementation Plan.

(ii)               The Borough Cycling Strategy

(iii)             The Borough Spending Plan, reported on the [1]10^th,
September 2013 to Cabinet (Item 15).

(iv)             [2]Redbridgei Cycle page and reference links.

 

Please contact me if you have any queries or concerns.

 

If you are unhappy with the outcome of your request, you may ask for an
internal review. Please contact the Information Officer at
[3][Redbridge Borough Council request email] or Town Hall, PO Box 2, High Road, Ilford, Essex,
IG1 1DD who will arrange an internal review of your case.

 

If you have a complaint about the handling of your enquiry then please
contact the Information Officer at London Borough of Redbridge, Town Hall,
PO Box 2, High Road, Ilford, Essex, telephone 0208 708 2331, e-mail
[4][Redbridge Borough Council request email].   If you consider the outcome of the London
Borough of Redbridge’s complaints procedure is not satisfactory you also
have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF 
Telephone:   08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

[5]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Sheila Sonagara

 

show quoted sections

References

Visible links
1. http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/ieList...
2. http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/leisure...
3. mailto:[Redbridge Borough Council request email]
4. mailto:[Redbridge Borough Council request email]
5. http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/