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Mixing with traffic

This section covers streets where motor traffic volumes and speeds are sufficiently low to enable cyclists to share the road space with other traffic without the need for cycle-specific infrastructure.

The Cycling England Design Guidance provides advice on a number of aspects of shared streets:

Design techniques are available that enable pedestrians to move more freely by reducing traffic management features that tend to encourage vehicles to assume priority, with space being shared between the different road users; vehicle restricted areas and home zones / DIY streets are particular examples of these.

Shared Space: A Local Transport Note is available, and other key references include:

Vehicle Restricted Areas: Cycling England has compiled Cycling in Pedestrian Areas, comprising a list of locations where cycling is permitted in otherwise pedestrian areas at any time, and at peak times. Key references include:

Sustrans DIY Streets project has published a range of useful resources on the development and design of simple, affordable measures to change a street into a place where people are the focus, rather than cars.

Other Shared Areas: Cycle routes sometimes pass through areas shared with cars away from the street, for example car parks:

Cycling England has compiled a list of locations where Cycling on Sea Front Promenades is permitted.

Other Key references:

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