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Cycling and cycling infrastructure expenditure

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To Whom it May Concern,

1) Please provide information on how much has been spent on cycling infrastructure in the area you're responsible for, broken down each year for the last 5 available financial years.

Where cycling provision has been provided as part of wider improvement works, these should be listed as cost for the cycling-related improvements, not for the entire project.

2) Please also list the amount spent, sorted by Funding Type/Source (e.g. Capital, Section 106, Central Government funding initiatives), broken down each year for the last 5 available financial years.

3) Please detail how much has been spent, broken down by year, on dedicated segregated cycling infrastructure (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

4) Please detail how many miles of segregated infrastructure has been built in the last 5 years (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Dear Southwark Borough Council,

I am emailing to request a response to my FOI in mid-February.

Please respond shortly.

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

accessinfo, Southwark Borough Council

Thank you for your email.

Can you kindly forward the initial request made in February as we have conducted a search and cannot find your request.

Please note we are currently unable to respond to any requests immediately as we re-direct our resources to provide critical services to vulnerable residents and businesses during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.

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Accessinfo Team
London Borough of Southwark Council
PO Box 64529
London
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Dear accessinfo,

Here is the original:

"1) Please provide information on how much has been spent on cycling infrastructure in the area you're responsible for, broken down each year for the last 5 available financial years.

Where cycling provision has been provided as part of wider improvement works, these should be listed as cost for the cycling-related improvements, not for the entire project.

2) Please also list the amount spent, sorted by Funding Type/Source (e.g. Capital, Section 106, Central Government funding initiatives), broken down each year for the last 5 available financial years.

3) Please detail how much has been spent, broken down by year, on dedicated segregated cycling infrastructure (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

4) Please detail how many miles of segregated infrastructure has been built in the last 5 years (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the following:
Kerbs
Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos
Bollards
Soft margins or verges
Crash barriers (Trunk roads)"

Yours sincerely,

[Name Removed]

Bascoe, Vanessa, Southwark Borough Council

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Southwark Council - Information request

Our reference: 2231735

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Dear A. Tranter

 

Re: Your request for information: 2231735

 

I am writing further to your request for information dated 22 June 2020.

 

Your request:

 

1)    Please provide information on how much has been spent on cycling
infrastructure in the area you're responsible for, broken down each year
for the last 5 available financial years.

 

Where cycling provision has been provided as part of wider improvement
works, these should be listed as cost for the cycling-related
improvements, not for the entire project.

 

           

16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 20/21
£2,077,775 £2,669,000 £1,312,865 £2,200,167 £1,370,711

 

 

2)    Please also list the amount spent, sorted by Funding Type/Source
(e.g. Capital, Section 106, Central Government funding initiatives),
broken down each year for the last 5 available financial years.

 

16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 20/21
TfL £1,657,775 £2,494,000 £1,116,000 £1,797,000 £366,000
Capital £420,000 £175,000 £90,000 £392,437 £988,405
Section £0 £0 £106,865 £10,730 £16,306
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3)    Please detail how much has been spent, broken down by year, on
dedicated segregated cycling infrastructure (only dedicated cycle paths
featuring light, full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT
included on-road painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing
re-purposed shared usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or
greenways).

 

·         For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical
separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the
following:

·         Kerbs

·         Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos

·         Bollards

·         Soft margins or verges

·         Crash barriers (Trunk roads)

 

Information not held in the format requested.

We cannot provide this information. All our dedicated segregated cycling
are part of a wider implementation works, for this reason is not possible
to extract the information requested   

 

 

4)    Please detail how many miles of segregated infrastructure has been
built in the last 5 years (only dedicated cycle paths featuring light,
full or kerb segregation away from motor vehicles, NOT included on-road
painted cycle lanes, shared usage paths or existing re-purposed shared
usage infrastructure such as canal towpaths or greenways).

 

·         For the avoidance of doubt, segregation refers to the physical
separation of cyclists from motorised traffic, and can be provided by the
following:

·         Kerbs

·         Kerbed plinths AKA Armadillos

·         Bollards

·         Soft margins or verges

·         Crash barriers (Trunk roads)"

 

16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 20/21
Miles 0.0758 0.1690 0.0000 0.1864 2.4488

 

 

 

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Yours sincerely

Vanessa Bascoe
Senior Information Systems Officer
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