In message , at 14:16:51 on
Mon, 21 Dec 2015, Paul Corfield remarked:

TfL estiamtes they are spending approximately £1.1m to answer the
circa 2,500 FOI requests they receive per year.

Funds better spent elsewhere?

I believe the FOI mechanism is important.

Perhaps they should analyse the topics being asked about and publish
more material proactively, thus reducing the load on their FOI team.

Which is precisely what they do. It's why Tube Working timetables are
on line. It also why TfL have just published the working timetables
for every TfL contracted bus service - this is a recent introduction.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publica.../bus-schedules

There is plenty of other stuff that is routinely published in order to
take the burden off the FOI process.

Half a dozen down, two and a half thousand to go
--
Roland Perry