The Public Realm: places that the public freely use and enjoy, including our network of public streets, roads and paths.

 

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These update pages suggest how pedestrians could enjoy our streets more safely and with less stress. Specifically we concentrate on helping people with vulnerabilities to cope more easily with traffic through improved designs for crossings places and pedestrian priority zones.

 

Not all vulnerabilities are apparent. People who can’t see well may also not be able to hear very well. People with poor mobility, may also not be able see or hear very well, or even be able to quickly appreciate potential danger. For all these people whether elderly or young, the every-day problems of coping with traffic and crossing a road can be very stressful.

 

The design of our UK crossings has not changed much in the last half century, yet society has changed and so we wish to promote a series of monitored trials across the country to demonstrate how crossing design could be improved.

 

All the suggested changes are quite modest and cost effective and could be carried out within existing legislation and budgets.

 

Each category of crossing place is considered separately; crossings at side-road junctions, crossings at roundabout junctions, crossings at cycle lanes and pedestrian priority zones. 

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