Local streets are the most diverse mix of street types and make up a large number of the streets in a network. They exist in a wide variety of urban contexts, and have a diversity of layouts and configurations.
Local street types
- Residential lane - A quiet, narrow street aligned to the rear of residential properties for service access, paired with parallel residential streets that can be designed for safer and more continuous links for walking and cycling.
- Residential way - A very quiet residential street inviting for people to spend time in, often with an informal layout and a sharing of spaces, and a low speed and volume of movement.
- Yield street - A very quiet residential street for living activities and movement at low speeds and volumes, with a carriageway that requires people driving vehicles to give way to one another to pass.
- Neighbourhood street - A quiet residential street for people to spend time in an environment with a low speed and volume of movement.
- Connector street - A local street that connects neighbourhoods, linking residential areas with local destinations such as centres, schools, and transport hubs.
- Urban centre streets - Streets in the centre of towns and cities with destinations of local or regional significance but are not the high street.
- Enterprise street - A street serving industrial and commercial areas, catering to increased frequency of large freight and servicing vehicles for which the street may be an origin or destination as well as people who work in the area.