Traffic density for St Helier tunnel (FOI)

Request

Please provide the traffic density of St Helier tunnel in central St Helier.  Please provide daily averages calculated from all traffic counts over the course of the year, for the last 10 years.

Response

The requested information has been provided in the attached spreadsheet from 2016 to mid-2022.

The Transport section, within Infrastructure & Environment began recording this data in 2016.

Any gaps in the data are as a result of the counter being down for maintenance.

It should be noted that the Transport section do not hold this data from mid-2022 onwards since the counter is permanently offline.

Therefore, the remaining information you requested is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law applies.

Tunnel Traffic Data 2016-2022.xlsx

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(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

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(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.