Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I do not have a clear answer on how much more expensive the island bus stops are. They are more expensive and they involve a slight increase in maintenance costs as lights have to be changed and we have to deal with vandalism and little things like that. The advice we received is that they should go in at appropriate locations. Over time we will develop our understanding of what an appropriate location is and we would like to hold to whatever that turns out to mean.

We have rolled out continuous footpaths wherever we are doing schemes and we put in the raised platform across side roads. We do not have a programme to do it outside the schemes. We are doing it as part of the schemes but we do not have a programme to follow through elsewhere.

From memory, I think standards are probably coming from the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets, DMURS, rather than our guidance.