06-05-2017, 09:23 AM
(06-05-2017, 09:10 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-05-2017, 08:29 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: Is there any possibility of a median? In combination with your other proposals, this could provide crossing refuge space, either everywhere or in many individual locations (say, every 20-30m), which would make it even easier for pedestrian and vehicular traffic to co-exist.
While this is perhaps a reasonable idea, medians (I believe refuge islands included) necessitate extremely wide lanes (4.8 meters), which would be worse than no median IMO.
I think narrow lanes, cobbles, whatever it takes to show this is a shared space should be the minimum. There'd even be room for the, by some miracle, controversial sidewalk then.
?? Why does a median require wider lanes? If the lane is wide enough, it’s wide enough, whether or not it is next to the other-direction lane. I might see it on an arterial, where large trucks need to be able to go and maybe you even want to allow for vehicles to slowly pass a stopped vehicle, but through the park I would go with the narrowest workable lanes (2.5m? I don’t know — how wide is a truck, anyway?), separated by a 2m median. Or some such. Not sure exactly.