Prioritise pedestrian crossing of side streets by requiring all vehicles to give way.
Benefits
- Treatment indicates pedestrian priority through surface levels rather than imposing a traffic control devices
- Flush surface improves accessibility
- Treatment is part of a considered design which is applied to the surrounding public domain more broadly
Considerations
- Warrants limit locations where this treatment can be applied
- Relatively expensive when compared to non-infrastructure methods of control
Reference
Austroads Guide
Guide to Traffic Management Part 8: Local Street Management, Section 8.5.9
Example
The intersection of Carter and Avoca Streets, Randwick is raised to footpath level and has the same colour and texture as the adjacent concrete footpath. Tactile Ground Surface Indicators are used to bookend the crossing point, in lieu of a level change, for people with visual impairment.
Details
Location:
Carter St and Avoca St, Randwick additional location
Agency responsible:
Randwick City Council
Application
| Local streets | Main streets | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential lane |  | Destination high street | |
| Residential way | | Transit street | |
| Yield street | | Connector avenue | |
| Neighbourhood street | | Arterial high street | |
| Connector street | | Transit arterial | |
| Urban centre street | | ||
| Enterprise street |  | ||
| Main roads | Civic spaces | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Transit only corridor | | Civic high street |  |
| Rural link | | Transit mall | |
| Rural highway | | Civic lane | |
| Secondary arterial |  | Service lane | |
| Principal arterial | | ||
| Motorway | | ||
Legend
| Appropriate treatment |
| Use with caution |
| Inappropriate treatment |
| Not applicable |