Connect with Tim PharoahConnect with Tim Pharoah

Adapting Residential Roads for Safety and Amenity

The paper examines a range of street design adaptations to address problems associated with motor traffic in residential areas. Practice in England and Wales in the 1980s is discussed using the findings of a survey of local authorities. Amongst authorities who had implemented physical measures, there were wide variations in enthusiasm and approach, often depending on urban renewal policies rather than the benefits to be obtained from street design per se. These differences are explored using case studies. Most of the authorities surveyed seemed unaware of practice in some other European countries, where reconstruction of residential streets to achieve environmental and safety improvements had been commonplace for ten years or more. The report argues for a major expansion of street adaptation activity, and suggests that this should be based on the experience of other European countries.

The report pdf can be downloaded in 4 parts:

Part 1 - The case for adaptations (Chapters 1, 2)

Part 2 - Strategies for implementation (Chapter 3)

Part 3 - Case Studies (Chapter 4)

Part 4 - Survey of Local Authorities, Conclusions, References (Chapters 5, 6)

Book AuthorLiz Beth and Tim Pharoah
PublisherSouth Bank Polytechnic London 1988
ISBNISBN 0 946147 90 6

keywords

Road Safety, street design, speed amangement, traffic management, European practice