Use tree planting in association with kerb extensions within parking space to create additional canopy cover and narrow the perceived width of the corridor.
Benefits
- Narrows the perceived width of the corridor, contributing to a self-explaining road environment
- Delineates areas for parking from through vehicle movement
- Maintains a clear and full-width footway
Considerations
- Sizing of planting beds needs to maximise soil volume for growth
- Layout needs to avoid conflict with space for parked vehicles
- Where being retrofitted, needs an understanding of where utilities are located
- Sight lines between pedestrians and drivers at crossing points needs to be maintained
Reference
Austroads Guide
Guide to Traffic Management Part 8: Local Street Management, Section 8.3.1
Further information
This solution may offer further benefits if combined with a water-sensitive urban design approach where trees are passively irrigated by stormwater runoff such as in this example in Kensington, Melbourne Vic
Example
Victoria Park, Zetland, uses Chinese Elms to narrow the effective width of corridors. They have been planted between parking bays, where there canopies can touch forming a tree tunnel.
Details
Location:
Grandstand Parade, Zetland between O'Dea Avenue and Gadigal Avenue
Agency responsible:
Landcom
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 |