Cycling Infrastructure - Find a freedom of information request

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)

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 five 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 five 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).

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).

1-3. The costs of cycle ways are included in overall scheme prices and therefore would need extracting. This has been estimated to take over 18 hours to complete and is therefore exempt from release under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act a public authority does not have to comply with a request for information if the cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit. The current limit is set at 18 hours or £450 (based on one officer paid at £25 per hour for 18 hours). Although we can confirm that the information requested is held by
Lincolnshire County Council we consider that the information has qualified as having exceeding this limit.

4. No segregated infrastructure has been built in the last five years.