School Streets enhanced gateways
We have been introducing new enhanced gateways for our School Streets to make them more visible, recognisable and compliant.
Aims of the new gateways
We believe in the potential for School Streets to improve road safety, encourage active travel and create a calmer start and finish to the beginning and end of the school day.
Signage restrictions and lack of identity prevented some of our schemes from reaching their full potential. This pilot was created to increase School Street recognition and awareness.
The aims of the scheme are to:
- Standardise Wandsworth School Streets
- Make Wandsworth School Streets more recognisable
- Alert drivers to a new section of the road ahead
- Encourage drivers to be more aware of their surroundings by taking note of local signage
- Further increase compliance, whether Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) enforced or not
Design specification
The enhanced entry treatment was designed to make Wandsworth School Streets more visible, recognisable and compliant.
A simple design was agreed for each entry point:
- Five-metre deep bold red surface treatment band across the carriageway
- Three brightly coloured pencil bollards on the footways either side
- Four white triangular 'dragons' teeth' to capture the drivers' attention and warn them of the restriction either side
Not all School Streets may benefit from a road and footway layout that will allow this exact formula, and we appreciate some may require a similar variation.
What's next
We are prioritising new entry treatment for School Streets where:
- The School Street has been made permanent with an approved Traffic Management Order
- Road surface is acceptable, or due to be resurfaced prior to installation
- We feel contravention levels can reduce