Use chicane-like structures or kerb blisters or extensions that narrow the carriage way to the width of a single vehicle, requiring them to slow down as they pass through.
Benefits
- Helps discourage excessive speed
Considerations
- Can support planting where appropriate
- Chicane-like structures may need truck aprons to assist larger vehicles navigating them
Reference
Austroads Guide
Guide to Traffic Management Part 8: Local Street Management, Section 8.3.2
Example
The restricted width of this slow point is designed in a way where it effectively extends the planted areas in the adjacent verge.
Details
Location:
Belmont Street, Alexandria between Harley Street and Fountain Street
Agency responsible:
City of Sydney
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 |