CIHT South West is excited to offer this workshop webinar on how to create pedestrian friendly side-road junctions with Robert Weetman, a specialist in how design affects street users and Mark Philpotts, Sustainable Mobility Design Specialist & Founder at City Infinity.
What would it take to make side-road junctions genuinely safe for pedestrians? Highway Code rules have been ignored for decades. Streets are littered with all manner of one-off experiments, each attempting to improve conditions, but none becoming a standard British approach. And what is the long-term answer for keeping those cycling past a road end safe from turning vehicles? Do continuous footways provide the answer? What about some new rules around zebra crossings?
Mark and Robert will describe a recent piece of work for a major UK city, in which they’ve provided comprehensive answers to these questions. This looks for a long-term, radical, yet realistic transformation of conditions, seeking a standardisation of design across the city, and genuinely decent conditions for pedestrians on both new and existing streets.
Robert and Mark say that this work has been built on a new framework of innovative ideas, and that these will be of immediate use for a wide audience. The also point out that they are explicitly linking the work to ideas on a “safe-systems approach” or “Vision Zero”.
Anyone interested or working in highways and transport, particularly related to active travel, road safety and highways design.
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Robert Weetman Robert’s role is in understanding the effects of street design on users. He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on continuous footways, and on bus stop bypasses and other arrangements involving cycle tracks at bus stops. Robert led the recent multi-year studies on inclusive design, published by Living Streets in September 2023. |
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Mark Philpotts - Sustainable Mobility Design Specialist & Founder, City Infinity Mark has 30 years of diverse civil engineering experience as well as being a recognised industry expert in sustainable mobility design. He has extensive experience in project delivery and has been responsible for managing multi-million pound investment programmes. At the other end of the scale, he has developed an almost fanatical interest in design detail and how street features fit together, as it can often make the difference between a good and a great scheme; it’s also key to ensuring designs are accessible and inclusive to as wide a range of people as possible. He believes in the power of designers experiencing the infrastructure they design and he has taken this to heart in acquiring a Christiania cargotrike, a cycle which has taught him far more about, cross falls, cambers and the stability and dynamic envelope of non-standard cycles than could ever be gleaned from a design guide! He also has a tandem which brings home the space needed to turn non-standard cycles as it is even more space hungry than the tricycle and he is a member of the Beyond the Bicycle Coalition. Mark is the author of CIHT’s Designing for Walking and he is also a proponent of getting out look at street layouts, both old and new, because it’s a useful way to see what is being tried in the real world, and the heuristic learning that visiting places and watching how people interact with the infrastructure can give real insight. |
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