Opening sentence needs updating to read: Introduce a low cost treatment across side streets to suggest the side street is a lower energy street environment.
Benefits
- Alerts drivers that they are entering a local area
- Easily installed
Considerations
- Painted surface would be susceptible to erosion from vehicle tyres
- Does not have any legal effect for pedestrians or drivers/riders
- Without other calming measures, may not have any effect on driver behaviour
Reference
Austroads Guide
Guide to Traffic Management Part 8: Local Street Management, Section 8.5.8
Example
Edgewood Crescent at Cabarita uses a simple, easily installed painted surface, connecting the footpath across an intersection threshold. This is a relatively simple method to subtly indicated the desired outcome.
Details
Location:
Edgewood Crescent, Cabarita at the intersection with Parkside Terrace
Agency responsible:
City of Canada Bay
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 |