![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Frodsham Street, Chester underwent a transformation to shared space in 2018 into a people focused high street: with level surfacing, reduced speed limits to 12mph, one way traffic and crucially with tactile paving giving accessible consistency throughout the scheme, which lead to it being voted the most accessible street by accessibility groups in Chester.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.An essential element of the planning and designing process is to conduct Accessibility Audits Ensure streets are accessible for all: All schemes should provide clear, consistent and legible blister paving or suitable tactile markings that indicate the division between areas that are solely for pedestrians and those that aren’t.Therefore, ensuring that people focused street design does not fall behind or remain in the motor vehicle dominated realm but shows that the way we design streets and cities can be both forward thinking and put people first but also be accessible and legible for all. This is a vital issue that policy and practice must address to ensure that people focused street design remains inclusive, with accessibility for all people and members of society at its core.They can receive negative reviews from accessibility groups, especially regarding partially sighted views, as they are less able to detect where the kerb line is and therefore where it is safe for them to walk, and also when it is safe to cross the street. In some European Countries, schemes that remove the certainty of dedicated spaces for people and vehicles have fallen fowl to issues around their legibility and accessibility.Installing continuous footway crossings on side roads that provide better for pedestrian desire lines and increase pedestrian priority ahead of vehicles.Providing more facilities for people such as seating, greenery and wayfinding, whilst giving greater space and priority to pedestrians.Removing boundary markings between the carriageway and footway, and sometimes road markings to design streets to slow vehicular traffic.Re-allocating space from carriageway and parking to footway, by reducing carriage width in exchange for increasing dedicated pedestrian space.Raising carriageway level to that of footway surfaces and removing the kerb to reduce the division and dominance of the whole street by motor vehicles, and encouraging more ownership of the street by pedestrians.Key features and elements of schemes that aim for the above include: In Pairs, streets that follow such principles are called Meeting Zones! Therefore, changing a streets function from solely movement centered to people and place focused. Increase the place and sticking function (people spending more time on a street) by encouraging non mobility related activities such as socialising and playing. ![]() Reduce motor vehicle dominance, by reducing speeds, encouraging less volumes of traffic, replacing parking spaces with people orientated street infrastructure and change the culture and behaviour of road users.Increase pedestrian priority and permeability of movement across and through streets and that encourage other road users to yield to pedestrians as the most vulnerable user.A key issue is that the term shared space is an ambiguously one and not easy to define – what does it actually mean! However, from a people focused street design and place making lens – it can be defined as streets that:
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