Sustrans traffic-free routes and greenways design guide contents

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Two women are travelling on the front of a rickshaw along the Roseburn path, Edinburgh, a traffic free path of the National Cycle Network. A person on a bike is approaching them in the foreground. The scene is bright green with tall tress and bushes in full leaf.

9. Access to routes

Cyclist passing two walkers on cycle path, both parties waving to each other

1. Traffic-free routes overview

Family cycling on National Route 7

2. Quality standards

Little girl on scooter, two women walking dogs, one woman with pushchair and boy behind the group on cycle path

3. People

Dog walker with two dogs, horse rider and cyclist on traffic-free path in woods

4. Sharing of paths

5. Signing and wayfinding

Cyclist under Clifton suspension bridge

6. Space requirements

path alignment

7. Geometric design

A group of people cycle along a Greenway in London

8. Path specification details

gates and traffic free path

10. Supporting details

Volunteers from the Ayrshire Coastal Path Group take part in a litter-pick along National Cycle Network Route 73

11. Maintenance and management

people on bikes greenway

12. Land and legal

13. Planning and consents

Snipe bird with long, straight bill sitting on tree stump

14. Ecology