Katoomba Charrette Outcomes Report - Blue Mountains City Council

Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy
8.5.2 Proposed Design for Katoomba Street Improvements
Katoomba Street With New Central Median and New Street
Trees, Bins and Street Lamps
Median Strip Pedestrian Refuge
The changes to Katoomba Street shown in the plan below serve
several purposes. An intermittent median strip is proposed,
which is 2 metres wide. This median is wide enough to serve as
a pedestrian refuge, so that pedestrians only have to walk
across 5.3 metres between the existing kerbs and the median
(only one lane of moving traffic), rather than having to make it
across 12.6 metres of existing pavement and two lanes of
moving traffic going in opposing directions. Breaks between
the intermittent median strips enable turning access into all
lanes.
Slower Traffic but Adequate Clearance
The introduction of these intermittent median strips will slow
vehicular traffic by narrowing the carriageways to a width of 5.3
metres for a row of kerbside parallel parked cars and a lane of
slowly moving traffic.
This carriageway width is narrow enough to slow the traffic, but
wide enough to let coaches pass even wider than normal
vehicles, parked parallel along the street. If a vehicle is very
badly parked, too far from the kerb, then coaches and/or other
vehicles may ride up on the kerb of the median to get past.
Katoomba Street Plan
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