Questions:

Each of these questions was asked by Will Nickell through Freedom of Information requests sent to every London borough. All figures are taken directly from their responses.

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

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

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?

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

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?

Q6. For the period mentioned in Q5, what percentage of your borough’s transport budget does this constitute?

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

Answers:

Click on each borough’s name to see the actual FOI request and the response received (links to the ‘What do they know?’ website).

Authority	Q1 (%)	Q2 (km)	Q3 (£)	Q4 (%)	Q5 (£)	Q6 (%)	Q7 (%)
Barking	1	4.5	0	0	750,000	34	15
Barnet	0	0	0	0	400,000	11	3
Bexley	0	0	0	0	///	///	7.25
Brent	1	1	///	///	///	///	28.38
Bromley	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.9
Camden	1.63	4.2	320,000	3.1	0	0	100
Croydon	///	///	0	0	///	///	///
Ealing	<1	1	400,000	2	///	///	50
Enfield	0	0	0	0	0	0	19
Greenwich	1.2	6.5	0	0	0	0	39
Hackney	0.2	0.5	0	0	0	0	87.9
Hammersmith (updated)	1.9	4.2	0	0	///	///	28.1
Haringey	0	0	0	0	///	///	42.8
Harrow (updated)	1.4	6.5	0	0	0	0	15
Havering	0	0	0	0	0	0	///
Hillingdon	<1	3	0	0	0	0	///
Hounslow	0	0	0	0	200,000	9	25
Islington	0.5	1	0	0	///	///	100
Kensington	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
Kingston-Upon-Thames (updated)	0.53	1.744	80,000	0.6	///	///	40
Lambeth	0	0	0	0	0	0	67
Lewisham	0.05	0.25	0	0	///	///	64
City of London	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
Merton	1	1.5	0	0	///	///	20
Newham (updated)	0.98	4.12	380,000	1.89	///	///	35.5
Redbridge	0.38	2	0	0	0	0	18
Richmond-Upon-Thames	0	0	0	0	///	///	DIY
Southwark	///	///	///	///	///	///	DIY
Sutton	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	10
Tower Hamlets	0	0	0	0	0	0	85
Waltham Forest	1.79	8.79	75,000	3	320,000	14.9	33
Wandsworth	0	0	0	0	0	0	DIY
Westminster	0.05	0.178	0	0	///	///	0.13

Aside: FOI request also sent to Transport for London and is included here for reference…

Transport for London

///

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6,800,000 (CS2 extension)

DIY (0.07)

107,000,000

2

0.6

Legend

/// = Answer not provided.
DIY = Council provided some data, but stated maths should be done by us.

UPDATES:

• 5 September 2014:
  • “The Department for Transport does not centrally hold figures for how many segregated bicycle lanes have been constructed over the last twenty years” says Robert Goodwill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary Department for Transport
• 17 May 2014:
  • A separate set of FOI queries were put to governments in Hampshire and the answers reveal that no hard segregated cycle paths were installed there. See WALL OF DEATH - HAMPSHIRE
• 13 May 2014:
  • Hammersmith and Fulham borough council responded on 13 May.
• 28 April 2014:
  • Newham borough council responded on 27th March
  • Kingston-Upon-Thames borough council responded on 2nd April
  • Harrow did not re-supply the information as requested; but a way was found to get at the original data that they had provided

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Appendix

• Please see the The Wall of Death event and its press release.
• Also see our report The London Boroughs: Saving Lives or Saving Pounds? by Will Nickell
• Some information used in press releases was obtained through the Department for Transport: English Road Safety Comparison
• Media coverage of the direct action protest is London Borough’s Wall of Death.
• Short-cut to this page:
  http://StopKillingCyclists.org/WallOfDeathFoi