For main roads, reserve sufficient footprint to integrate the corridor with adjacent topography (steeper sites need more space, flatter sites need less).
Benefits
- Allows a road to respond to its context more successfully
Considerations
- May be undesirable to achieve adjacent to areas where sensitive vegetation shouldn't be cleared
Reference
TfNSW Guide
TS 01592 Beyond the Pavement, Principle four
Example
The Princes Highway, north of Milton, varies to accommodate the changing terrain it traverses. Where elevation change is greatest (photo foreground) the batters below and above the carriageways are steeper. As the highway crosses the floodplain, the flatter topography allows an alignment nearer to existing grades.
Details
Location:
Princes Highway, north of Milton
Agency responsible:
TfNSW
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 |