Best practice on using mini-roundabouts and puffin crossings is set to be published, following concerns from road-users over their safety and ease of use.
The Department for Transport-County Surveyors’ Society advice on mini-roundabouts was drawn up following a survey suggesting that 4,500 people a year were injured or killed while negotiating them. It also highlighted how two-thirds of highway officers complained about the lack of satisfactory design advice (Surveyor, 17 January 2002). The guidance aims to make the experience of practioners in using the features widely available, and is thought to include advice on deflection, traffic capacity and provision for pedestrians.
The guidance on appropriate use of mini-roundabouts should complement revised standards on these features being drawn up by the ~Highways Agency~ which will be published towards the end of the year or in early 2007. The CSS plans to publish the advice at a conference to be held in September on ‘managing urban conflicts’. T
he event will also be used to launch a second piece of sought-after best practice guidance, on puffin crossings, produced after concerns that many had been badly installed and some pedestrians found them difficult to use. The DfT-CSS guidance is expected to raise awareness of the public’s reaction to the crossings. Some users complained that the puffin’s distinctive nearside ‘wait’ box was often obscured by other pedestrians, raising questions over the crossings’ relative safety.
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