STREETSCAPE GUIDANCE

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INTRODUCTION
PART A
A vision for London’s streets
PART B
From strategy to delivery
PART C
New measures for new challenges
PART D
Balancing priorities
PART F
Appendix
PART E
Physical design and materials
SECTION 6
Introduction
SECTION 7
High quality footways
SECTION 8
Carriageways
SECTION 9
Crossings
SECTION 10
Kerbside activity
SECTION 11
Footway amenities
SECTION 12
Safety and functionality
SECTION 13
Street environment
SECTION 14
Transport interchanges
Streetscape Guidance
Figure 17: The Street Types transcend highway ownership and borough boundaries
By 2016, STfL workshops had been completed
with 32 of the 33 London boroughs and attended
by more than 400 transport officers/executives.
Each workshop applied an identical version
controlled process via a third party arbitrator to
make sure that TfL and the boroughs had equal
influence, and the whole network was discussed.
Workshops referenced a combination of
strategic data from TfL (such as traffic volumes,
pedestrian density, bus passenger flows and
cycle routes), local information from the
borough, and expert officer judgement to create
separate maps showing movement and place.
These were then digitised via a geographic
information system (GIS) on to a common
network and combined to create a Street Types
map for each borough.
STfL is an exciting and emerging transport
planning concept. This new shared geography is
helping to reshape how TfL and the boroughs
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use the limited space available on our road
network. Importantly it doesn’t just focus on the
transformation of key locations, but ensures we
are maximising the usage and maintenance of our
existing infrastructure.
The process has identified parts of the road
network which attract the most people allowing
us to target locations where different types of
intervention might be more or less appropriate.
In that way we can ensure transport continues
to support London’s growth in a safe and
sustainable manner, mindful that the utilisation
of a place relies not only on its form, but how
efficiently it can be accessed by people and
services. A more informed understanding of
what drives patterns of movement across the
road network is inherent to the STfL concept;
as with only nine Street Types, which have been
applied to the entire road network in London,
it is nearly impossible to develop a strictly
applicable set of design criteria for each type.
Please contact StreetTypes@tfl.gov.uk
for further information, or visit our website
tfl.gov.uk/street-types