Cycling and cycling infrastructure expenditure
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 Bromley Borough Council,
I am emailing to request a response on this FOI from mid February 2020.
It has been over 60 working days and I have not received any response as of 31 May 2020.
Yours faithfully,
[Name Removed]
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Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Cycling and cycling
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Dear Requester,
Further to your recent EIR enquiry (20123) having completed my enquiries,
please see response(s) to your EIR request highlighted in blue below,
which have been provided by a senior member of staff in the Environmental
Services and Public Protection department.
EIR RESPONSE(S) BELOW:
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)
Response:
A high level figure of what is spent (or nearly spent) on Local Cycle
Infrastructure in the current financial year is £958,000. This figure is
broken down as;
Local Cycle Infrastructure schemes is £130,000
Cycle Parking including Cycle Hub at stations £378,000
TfL funded Cycleway from £450,000 circa
These figures should be similar to the past 5 years except for the
Cycleway and major cycling scheme like Crofton Lane Scheme which is
currently being designed and implemented.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide answers for questions 2-4, and
have applied the exception 12(4) (b) as below:
To use this exception we have to provide a Public Interest Test
In favour of disclosure In favour to maintain the exception
12(4)(b) manifestly unreasonable
request
We recognise there is a legitimate This information is refused on the
public interest in promoting the basis that the request is manifestly
accountability and transparency of unreasonable and would be detrimental
public authorities. by diverting critical times and
resources away from London Borough of
Bromley duties. There is information
in the public domain that can be
obtained from TFL that allows further
Allowing individuals to understand understanding and this is a factor
decisions made by public authorities that weighs against release of the
affecting their lives and, in some requested information given then
cases, assisting individuals in burden this would place on staff
challenging those decisions. resources.
Having considered the balance of public interest, it is our view that the
exception is maintained, for the reasons noted above.
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We trust this completes your EIR enquiry which has now been closed.
Thank you for your request.
Regards
FOI Co-ordinator
Environment and Public Protection
London Borough of Bromley
[1]www.bromley.gov.uk
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