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Home Zone News has information about Home Zones in the UK. Home Zones are neighborhood areas designed (or re-designed) to calm traffic, encourage walking and bicycling, and make cities and towns more neighborly and inviting. In short, they create neighborhoods designed for people, where automobiles are guests, rather than the other way 'round.

A typical Home Zone retrofit includes these features:

• changed road layout to incorporate 30-degree parking bays, marked on alternating sides to create chicanes which will help slow traffic down
  
• six gateway features consisting of a raised table and width restriction to mark the entry to the home zone. In all but two locations these are set back from junctions with surrounding distributor roads, allowing entry to commercial premises on the edge of the area
  
• shared surface
  
• new street lighting to double the number of street lights in the area
  
• 20mph zone
  
• planting areas
  
• installation of community mosaics
  
• a play area

permanent link to article: ""Home Zones" improve neighborliness, walkability, bikeability, in the UK"
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