Carriageway inspection - A75, between Newton Stewart roundabout and B735 junction: EIR release

Information requested

Under the general requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2002, I would be grateful if you would provide the following information in relation to the A75 between the Newton Stewart roundabout and the junction with the B735.

1. Dates of all safety inspections undertaken on the carriageway in the two years preceding 4th March 2019
2. Details of all carriageway defects identified during safety inspections in the two years preceding 4th March 2019
3. Details of how carriageway safety inspections are undertaken, including whether walked or driven, the speed of the inspection vehicle and the number of persons in the vehicle.
4. The intended frequency of carriageway safety inspections.
5. Details of all complaints and/or enquiries relating to the carriageway, received in the two years preceding 4th March 2019
6. The hierarchy classification.
7. The road/section number.
8. The defect intervention criteria adopted in relation to the identification of all categories of carriageway potholes (in other words, this means how they define a pothole as requiring attention)
9. The time period(s) adopted between identification and repair (temporary and permanent) of all categories of carriageway defects.
10. Whether or not the authority has formally adopted all or part of the standards contained within the national code of practice for highways maintenance management.

Response

I have numbered our response for ease of reference. 

1 and 2. Please refer to Annex A of this request which is the Inspection Defect Report for 4 March 2017 to 4 March 2019 and details all carriageway defects identified during safety inspections.

3 / 4 / 8 / 9 and 10. All of the information you have requested is available from; https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/44436/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-scottish-trunk-road-network-january-2019.pdf

5. Please refer to Annex B which details all complaints relating to the carriageway, received by our operating company in the two years preceding 4 March 2019. An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

6 / 7. The hierarchy and road section numbers are; 

Route	Section Number	Hierarchy Link	Hierarchy Score
A75	11569/05	66	5
A75	11570/05	66	5
A75	11570/15	66	5
A75	11570/69	66	5
A75	11567/17	66	5
A75	11567/64	66	5

 

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FOI-19-00681 Annex A, B

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