Response to Recovery

SECTION TWO: TEMPORARY MEASURES

Reshaping the Public Realm to Support COVID-19 Recovery

FM Conway has identified a suite of low cost, safe and rapidly deployable temporary measures designed to support an increase in cycling and pedestrian movement, manage queuing, facilitate social distancing for pedestrians and support a range of ‘healthy streets’ initiatives. The public realm may also be used to provide visual reminders and communicate transitional arrangements on behalf of local authorities.

Increased footway space to maintain social distancing

Introduction of temporary cycle lanes using light segregation

Targeted interventions to create neighbourhood exercise zones

Potential measures to support the transition from ‘lockdown’ to recovery include:

• Re-purpose second traffic lane of roads and/or suspend parking bays and reduce traffic lane widths to create temporary cycle lanes or increased footway space

• Clearly defined pedestrian routes and queuing areas to support effective social distancing

• Reduce speed limits and provide temporary traffic calming to reduce the dominance of vehicular activity

• On roads with parking provided on both sides of the carriageway that cannot be suspended, narrowing lanes can provide central median refuges to assist pedestrians crossing

• Filter streets to stop rat-running and limit through traffic; this can include full closures, one-way filters and time or width restriction filters

• Closing sections of road outside schools where temporary measures could also support general road safety improvements and future school street schemes

• Reduce junction sizes and restrict some turning movements to provide shorter crossings and increased space for footways or cycling

• Targeted road closures where the surrounding infrastructure is already available and local residents and businesses will be accustomed to easily navigating diversions

• Complimentary measures, including de-cluttering to create more usable footway space, provision of temporary cycle stands and innovative signage / road markings to communicate key messages