ROADS FOR PEOPLE

The paper begins by underlining the need to design with a view to enhancing the total environment. It goes on to draw attention to the criticisms which have been levelled at designers of residential access roads in recent years. The great variety of possibilities in the designs of vehicle access systems is then illustrated with designed examples. The article concludes with the suggestion that there is much to be gained by road designers reappraising their attitudes to the method of providing vehicle access to residential areas. Such a reappraisal could result in the highway engineer playing a fuller part in the efforts to evolve more pleasing and fulfilling environments in which people have their homes. (Author) /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Whitehall Technical Press Limited

  Wrotham Place
  Wrotham, Sevenoaks, Kent ME14 1PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • McCluskey, J M
• Publication Date: 1977

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 12-25
• Serial:
  • Highway Engineer
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Whitehall Press Limited
  • ISSN: 0306-6452

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access roads; Cul de sacs; Design; Highway design; Layout; Pedestrian areas; Planning; Residential areas; Service roads; Social values
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Community values
• ITRD Terms: 2791: Cul de sac; 9011: Design (overall design); 2885: Layout; 341: Pedestrian precinct; 143: Planning; 307: Residential area; 2795: Service road; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159766
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1977 12:00AM