Spatial planning: Step 4
Create a seamless network of connectivity for pedestrians
Urban hubs should be designed as:
- Zones favouring or prioritising NMT, where pedestrians, cyclists and people with disabilities using assisted transport are the dominant users.
- Roads as spaces, not just as conduits for traffic, incorporated into the broader open system. Sidewalks and road crossings should be generous.
- Pedestrian infrastructure will generally be focussed within the 800 m walkshed of a rail station or other higher order PT facility and 400 m from any PT carrying route.
- Additionally, pedestrian movement for commercial maximisation and improved passive surveillance on strategic routes will require the prioritisation of certain routes within the pedestrian network. These routes should link strategic points in the hub (PT facilities and carrying routes, key public facilities and spaces) as well as heavily used routes in brownfield sites that link key destinations.
- These routes collectively form the prioritised pedestrian network and functions as a vital component in the public space network. They form the focus of detailed urban design as a sequence of landscaped links and spaces.
- Other routes will be designed for safe pedestrian flows but may receive less investment.
- The prioritised pedestrian network operates at three scales (see figure below) that are considered and designed holistically.
Figure: Scales of pedestrian accessibility
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