20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in October 2024
1) The five road junctions with the most casualties and collisions over the last three years (specifically the greatest 'casualty harm') are the Redbridge Roundabout, Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle, the foot of Ilford Hill and Brixton Hill/Acre Lane. Bow Roundabout is number seven. 2) Of the 1.87 billion bus journeys made during the last financial year, 60% were made by passengers paying full fare and 17% by passengers with free passes (e.g. Freedom Pass). 3) Between 21 May 2023 and 22 September 2024, 65,848 westbound Elizabeth line trains terminated at Paddington and 75,949 continued beyond Paddington. That's a 46%/54% split. 4) On average 410,000 Oyster cards are issued each month. Normally (but not currently) 15,000 60+ Photocards are issued each month. 5) New bus route 310 is 7.57 miles long towards Golders Green but only 7.17 miles towards Stamford Hill. 6) 62 Overground stations, 24 Elizabeth line stations and zero Underground stations have a ticket office. These figures are unchanged since 2020. 7) Standard tube stock driving motor car No 3327 (built in 1927) is the only Underground vehicle to have been displayed at the Science Museum in South Kensington (from 1967 to 1996 in the Rail Transport Gallery). 8) Since 2019 16 people have been prosecuted for alcohol consumption on TfL services, 105 for alcohol possession and just one for being unfit due to alcohol. 9) Since 2021 £695,000 has been spent on the refurbishment of the escalators at Cutty Sark DLR. All four are currently out of service following the identification of defects. 10) TfL will be updating the tube map once the new London Overground line signage has come into use. This is planned to happen before the end of 2024. 11) Plans for the current major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout have been released, solely because one person asked. 12) In the last financial year 2979 people were prosecuted for fare evasion and 12,907 penalty fare notices issued in lieu of initiating a criminal prosecution. 13) Since the start of the year the tube station with the most lift faults is Victoria, the most out-of-service lift on the Elizabeth line is at Canary Wharf and the most broken-down lift on the Overground is at Caledonian Road and Barnsbury. 14) "the speed limit plus 10% plus 2mph" is the standard threshold for speed cameras across the whole of London, including the Rotherhithe Tunnel. 15) There are no plans to introduce Platform Screen/Edge Doors at stations served by the new Piccadilly line tube stock. An upgrade of the signalling on the line is not currently funded. 16) A new DLR timetable begins on 4th November. It exists only as a set of unhelpfully atomised spreadsheets. 17) You can stop asking TfL for the latest copy of their geographic tube map because they haven't updated it since May 2014. 18) Last year 89 'Slips Trips and Falls' were recorded at Bank/Monument stations. On average ¼m passengers use these stations every day. 19) Since 2002 there have been 146 claims against TfL linked to asbestos inhalation, an average of around 7 per year. It is not known how many of these claims are by ex-employees. 20) During 2023/24 TfL received 4540 FOI and EIR requests. 67% were responded to in full, 12% relied on a partial exemption and 21% were refused in full due to an applicable exemption.
