PublicRealm.org
Create elegant, practical and safe streets.
About us
20mph in rural villages
Roadside planters
Place-making
Memorable places
How good is your street
Reduce street clutter
Street lights
People and activities
Wellbeing
Regeneration
Links and connections
Pedestrian links
Create and improve links
Public space often involves traffic
Urbanism and road design
Roads and traffic
Consider traffic
The DMRB
The road network
Flows and capacity
Road safety and speed
Check road safety records
What a driver actually sees
Traffic speed and accidents
How to reduce traffic speed
Road safety and amenity
Traffic calming regulations
Traffic calming guidance
Road junctions
Conflict points
Roundabouts
Signalled junctions
Acceptable congestion
Geometry of the road
Space for vehicles to turn
Visibility splays
Crossing the road
Comfortable crossings
Swiss Encounter Zones
Courtesy crossings
What are courtesy crossings?
What is the difference between an informal and a courtesy crossing?
Where are courtesy crossings applicable?
Can courtesy crossings be within traffic calming?
Why do drivers stop in a single lane one-way road?
Why are pedestrians comfortable to cross a single lane one-way road?
Why is it easier for drivers to be courteous in single lane one-way streets?
Projects
Convert an informal crossing into a courtesy crossing
Creating reports for Historic Town Centres
Haslemere town centre study
What to look for in villages
Contact us
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