Bus Lanes (Hansard, 23 October 1997)

§ Baroness Hayman

Borough-by-borough information on the first topic is not held by my department. Bus lanes currently existing in the capital amount to just over 76 miles. Additional bus lanes, to the extent of some seven miles, are under development by the Traffic Director for London. Other bus lanes are being developed as part of the 540-mile London Bus Priority Network, but specific proposals for these have still to be agreed by the boroughs. The following three tables of figures, copies of which are being placed in the Library of the House, show borough-by-borough details.

Table 1. Miles of Bus Lanes Existing in London
Authority	Motorways	Priority Routes	Other Local Routes	Totals
Barking and Dagenham	0.00	0.00	0.58	0.58
Barnet	0.00	0.00	1.44	1.44
Bexley	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.02
Brent	0.00	0.00	1.25	1.25
Bromley	0.00	0.07	0.50	0.57
Camden	0.00	1.16	5.12	6.28
City of London	0.00	0.63	0.32	0.95
Croydon	0.00	0.07	1.62	1.69
Ealing	0.00	0.00	2.40	2.40
Enfield	0.00	0.00	1.56	1.56
Greenwich	0.00	0.00	1.22	1.22

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Table 1. Miles of Bus Lanes Existing in London
Authority	Motorways	Priority Routes	Other Local Routes	Totals
Hackney	0.00	1.83	0.72	2.55
Hammersmith and Fulham	0.00	0.00	5.17	5.17
Haringey	0.00	2.69	0.45	3.14
Harrow	0.00	0.00	1.14	1.14
Havering	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Hillingdon	1.00	0.00	0.39	1.39
Hounslow	0.00	0.15	1.71	1.86
Islington	0.00	2.40	2.10	4.50
Kensington and Chelsea	0.00	0.17	0.47	0.64
Kingston Upon Thames	0.00	0.00	1.19	1.19
Lambeth	0.00	4.55	1.19	5.74
Lewisham	0.00	1.17	1.50	2.67
Merton	0.00	0.63	0.13	0.76
Newham	0.00	0.17	3.19	3.36
Redbridge	0.00	0.00	0.21	0.21
Richmond	0.00	0.00	2.01	2.01
Southwark	0.00	2.55	1.57	4.12
Sutton	0.00	0.00	0.40	0.40
Tower Hamlets	0.00	2.53	1.68	4.21
Waltham Forest	0.00	0.00	2.90	2.90
Wandsworth	0.00	0.87	3.63	4.50
Westminster	0.00	4.49	1.33	5.82
Totals	1.00	26.13	49.11	76.24

Table 2. Plans for Bus Lanes in London (miles)
Authority	Priority Routes
Barking and Dagenham	0.00
Barnet	0.00
Bexley	0.00
Brent	0.00
Bromley	0.33
Camden	0.39
City of London	0.00
Croydon	0.09
Ealing	0.00
Enfield	0.00
Greenwich	0.65
Hackney	0.12
Hammersmith and Fulham	0.00
Haringey	0.34
Harrow	0.00
Havering	0.00
Hillingdon	0.00
Hounslow	0.64
Islington	0.50
Kensington and Chelsea	0.00
Kingston Upon Thames	0.00
Lambeth	0.24
Lewisham	1.70
Merton	0.00
Newham	0.18
Redbridge	0.00
Richmond	0.00
Southwark	0.82
Sutton	0.00
Tower Hamlets	0.00
Waltham Forest	0.00
Wandsworth	0.94
Westminster	0.54
Totals	7.48

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Table 3: Implementation of Planned Bus Lanes on Priority Routes (miles)
Authority	1997–98	1998–99	1999–00	Total
Barking and Dagenham	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Barnet	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Bexley	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Brent	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Bromley	0.00	0.00	0.33	0.33
Camden	0.39	0.00	0.00	0.39
City of London	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Croydon	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.09
Ealing	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Enfield	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Greenwich	0.65	0.00	0.00	0.65
Hackney	0.12	0.00	0.00	0.12
Hammersmith and Fulham	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Haringey	0.34	0.00	0.00	0.34
Harrow	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Havering	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Hillingdon	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Hounslow	0.40	0.24	0.00	0.64
Islington	0.50	0.00	0.00	0.50

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Table 3: Implementation of Planned Bus Lanes on Priority Routes (miles)
Authority	1997–98	1998–99	1999–00	Total
Kensington and Chelsea	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Kingston Upon Thames	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Lambeth	0.00	0.10	0.14	0.24
Lewisham	0.65	0.78	0.27	1.70
Merton	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Newham	0.09	0.00	0.09	0.18
Redbridge	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Richmond	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Southwark	0.20	0.45	0.17	0.82
Sutton	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tower Hamlets	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Waltham Forest	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Wandsworth	0.29	0.65	0.00	0.94
Westminster	0.31	0.00	0.23	0.54
Total	4.03	2.22	1.23	7.48

Note:

Where the provision of a bus lane extends over more than one year, this table treats the final year as the date introduced.