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It's worth noting that as well as parking restrictions TMOs are also
(sometimes) used for roadworks, speed restrictions, road closures
and for major events (I'm one of the organizers of the UK's largest
outdoor event) amongst others. Good boroughs already seem to publish this information - random Google search elicited http://www.croydon.gov.uk/transportandstreets/rhps/roads/closures/notices and others. In London these TMOs have to be submitted to Transport for London. If they could be persuaded to open up their data we'd solve a whole region. But of course we know how reluctant TfL are to open up data. This will be more pertinent when/if the permit scheme comes in http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3186/contents/made On 17/02/2011 17:47, Nick Leaton wrote: I've a FOI request in to a council for its Traffic Management Orders.These are the documents that the council needs to have in place in order to enforce parking restrictions. Clearly its useful information, and for individuals to request from one council doesn't really get them into the public domain in a searchable form. What's needed is the ability to submit to all councils, and then periodically for updates, and to centralise the publication. A similar sort of document would be a list, and preferably a GIS of conservation areas. I suspect there are some other similarly types of requests where you want to bulk FOI councils, or groups of organisations. Since you don't want abuses of an FOI system, you probably want some sort of vetting, but it would always be open for someone to mash up an interface to whatdotheknow. Viable or not? |
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