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5.9 Staggered pelican crossings

Staggered Pelican - Toucan Crossings are considered to be the safest type of crossing for wide roads. These are two-stage crossings with a 'sheep pen' of guard railing on the central refuge. The guard rail channels pedestrians to cross the road in two halves. Generally a minimum central refuge of 3000mm wide is required to allow for the guard rail to be set 450mm off the kerb edge whilst leaving a 2000mm wide area between the rails for the pedestrians.

The kerb on both sides of the road and on the central refuge must be dropped flush with the carriageway level for the full width of the crossing and red tactile paving provided to the central refuge and to each side of the road in the L shaped pattern.

Diagram of staggered pelican crossing showing L shaped arrangement of tactile paving at both far sides of the carriageway. There are 800mm deep rows of tactile paving at both entrances to the central refuge area, set back 150mm form the edge of the refuge. The rest of the refuge is protected with guardrails. Push button control boxes are indicated to the right hand side of each far side crossing point and on both sides of the central refuge crossing points.

Pedestrian refuges, Layout of tactile surface on standard refuge less than 2000mm wide, Layout of tactile surface on standard refuge greater than 2000mm wide, Triangular island pedestrian refuges

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