Road width

Cookie_Monster · 20-06-2010 12:10PM #1

I'm doing a bit of modelling and wondering

whats the width of an average urban road. Something like a 2 lane road such as Rochestown Avenue in Killiney? just the road width. about 2 metres per lane?

also whats an average footpath width, 1.5m or so?

thanks

Carawaystick · 20-06-2010 11:46PM

Are you comparing The road widths in Cabinteely to Killiney?
Why not measure the road and path width where you are?

I'd go with 1.2m path and 6m road.

I doubt there's a standard

corktina · 21-06-2010 07:01AM

go measure you lazy git... ;-)

BluntGuy · 21-06-2010 08:58AM

corktina wrote: »

go measure you lazy git... ;-)

Always friendly faces in the Infrastructure forum.

I'd say Caraway is on the mark. 5-6m for a model.

The Word Is Bor · 21-06-2010 09:10AM

The Traffic Management Guidelines gives you all you need.

One thing you should note is that the TMG are aspirational and site constraints play a huge part in determining the form of urban roads.

corktina · 21-06-2010 10:31AM

BluntGuy wrote: »

Always friendly faces in the Infrastructure forum.

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:eek:

Cookie_Monster · 22-06-2010 08:56AM

Thanks all.

I thought it would be common knowledge to someone here so asked rather than risk standing in the middle of a busy road

Carawaystick · 23-06-2010 09:50PM

Urban road widths vary, I guess you wanted to know about new urban or suburban roads being built, which would be more likely to be built to a reasonably common standard.

Generally lane widths are 3m, wider on major routes (3.5/3.75 on motorways for example)

Usually road marking lines are about 100mm so the road might be 6.3m or a bit more as there is usually a gutter inside the yellow lines.

The road might be wider again if there's some allowance for parking, turning lane etc.

Road width

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