Particularly for higher movement corridors, increase safety and improve amenity by providing adequate space for separation between people walking or cycling and motorised vehicles in the corridor cross-section.
Benefits
- Provides a more pleasant environment, giving separation to noise and pollution
- Allows better opportunity to incorporate space for tree planting providing shade to the path
Considerations
- Alignment of paths should also respond to urban form. Particularly in Urban and Urban Centre contexts, there may be a strongly defined building line which should be reflected in alignments
- Space in main corridors is sometimes constrained, limiting the amount of separation available between modes
Reference
TfNSW Guide
TS 01589 Walking Space Guide
Further information
The Walking Space Guide describes minimum setbacks for pedestrian comfort based on adjacent road speed. The Cycleway Design Toolbox describes separation for cycle facilities.
Example
Camden Valley Way at Prestons has walking and cycling separated from motorised vehicles in a corridor wide enough to also allow shade planting. When width is constrained by limited space, maintain minimum buffer distances between the kerb and space for cycling.
Details
Location:
Camden Valley Way, Prestons between Ash Road and Bernera Road
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 |