16 September 2019
Our ref: 5572044
Thank you for your request received on 22 August 2019, for the following
information:
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 2016 and the 31st of August 2019,
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.
We have processed this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Response
The council holds the information requested the answers to your questions are
below
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?
We do not have a record of this information, but officers consider that, if there are
any stretches meeting the definition given, the total is very small and close to 0% of
the total road kilometres.
2. How many total kilometres of fully, hard segregated cycle routes does this
equate to?
We do not have a record of this information but officers consider that, if there are any
stretches meeting the definition given, the total is very small and close to 0km.
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?
£0
4. In relation to the above question, what percentage of your total transport
spend within your borough for the named period did this constitute?
0%
5. For the period between the 1st of April 2016 and the 31st of August 2019,
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?
£0
6. For the period mentioned in question 5, what percentage of your borough's
transport budget does this constitute?
0%
7. What percentage of road kilometres under your sole control are 20mph
roads?
There are currently approximately 40km of 20mph roads out of a total of
approximately 725km of borough controlled roads. This equates to about 5.5%.
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.
Other initiatives include cycle training, general road safety education activities,
delivery of off road cycle routes, work in progress developing a signed quiet cycle
route, general road safety engineering schemes.
Further information
If you are interested in the data that the council holds you may wish to visit Open
Barnet, the council’s data portal. This brings together all our published datasets and
other information of interest on one searchable database for anyone, anywhere to
access.
http://open.barnet.gov.uk/
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