Footpaths should be provided on both sides of the road if the road environment does not allow safe crossing from a footpath to any properties on the side opposite. STREET ZONES
There are four distinct street zones to consider when designing rural footpaths: • Road edge (kerbs, sealed or unsealed shoulders etc.) • Street furniture and rural road drainage zone • Through route (for pedestrian movement) • Frontage and rural land drainage zone (against the property boundary
ROAD EDGE
STREET FURNITURE & RURAL ROAD DRAINAGE ZONE
Where a kerb is to be provided for drainage control, the kerb area would nominally be 0.15 m wide. This area is not to be considered part of the footpath width. Where a sealed or unsealed shoulder forms the road edge, this area is not to be considered as part of the footpath width. Along with any potential kerbs, the street furniture and rural road drainage zone forms the buffer between footpath users and vehicle traffic. It provides a location for signal poles, lighting columns, and any rural signs. It can also be used for soft landscaping, when blending the road in to the surrounding rural landscape. It can also provide for moveable items such as waste bins for collection and permitted advertising, temporary traffic management signs, and places to gather and wait outside the through route, such as at bus stops and crossings. Angled parking bays must include an allowance for vehicle overhang, from kerb or wheel stop, within the zone. Roadside table drains or swales may be included in this zone. It may be part of a clear zone for high-speed roads.
THROUGH ROUTE
This is the width that must be kept clear of obstructions to allow path users to pass.
FRONTAGE AND RURAL LAND DRAINAGE ZONE
The frontage and rural land drainage zone is the area that path users do not normally enter when passing. It may contain shop window frontage, retaining walls or berm slopes, utility cabinets and plinths, vegetation overhangs. It may be reduced to 0.15 m where a footpath is paved to fences or walls on the road boundary. It may include a land drain, where significant run-off from land cannot be contained in a table drain or swale in the street furniture and rural road drainage zone. Consider path user safety if the depth and flow of the land drain may be hazardous.
MINIMUM ZONE WIDTHS
The table below shows the minimum footpath zone dimensions based on the NZTA Pedestrian Planning and Design Guide.
table 2 MINIMUM RURAL FOOTPATH ZONE DIMENSIONS
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Zone
Location
Maximum pedestrian flow
Kerb
Street Furniture
Through route
Frontage
Alongside parks, schools and other major pedestrian generators
80p/min
0.15m
1.2m
2.4m +
1.0m
4.75m
High speed roads (> 60 km/h)
60p/min
0.15m
1.2m
1.8m
1m
4.15m+
Low speed roads (<60 km/h)
50p/min
0.15m
0.9m
1.8m
1m
3.85m
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