Introducing the Healthy Street Check...Healthy Streets Survey • On street survey • 5-10 minute conversation with 100 Londoners • 80 Streets, over 8,000 Londoners so far Local

Lucy Saunders

Brian Deegan

Introducing the Healthy Street Check

What is the Healthy Streets approach?

9 Street types

Easy to cross

New York

Shade and shelter

Sydney

Places to sop Places to stop

Hackney Parklet

Not too noisy

Not too noisy

The Cut

People feel safe

People feel safe

Turnpike Lane DIY Streets

Things to see and do

Things to see and do

Copenhagen

People feel relaxed

• Montreal

People feel relaxed

Montreal

Clean air

• London

Clean air

Seoul

People choose to walk cycle

• Royal college street

People choose to walk and cycle

Montreal

People from all walks of life

Pedestrians from all walks of life

Van Gogh Walk

What does the Mayor say about the Healthy Streets

approach?

“Using London's transport network to promote walking and cycling is

vital to tackling health inequalities and improving public health more

generally.

As the city's road network faces increasing pressure from an expanding

population, strong voices championing street design that prioritises

active travel will become more and more important.

A health-promoting, inclusive transport system requires more than a

focus on cycling and walking, so I will be building on the Healthy

Streets approach introduced in TfL's Transport and Health Action Plan

to take a more holistic approach to transport planning.”

What does the Mayor say about the Healthy Streets

approach?

“I am committed to taking action to improve public health and tackle

health inequalities, and an important means of doing this will be

through my management of London's transport network.

I plan to create healthier neighbourhoods where walking and cycling are

safer and easier for all, with greener, better public spaces, and cleaner

air. This will require a rounded approach that prioritises the needs of all

Londoners and protects the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.

The Healthy Streets approach - delivering the 10 indicators of a

Healthy Street - is an intuitive, evidence-based means of achieving

this and I will ensure that it is embedded into the governance of TfL.”

Healthy Streets Survey

• On street survey

• 5-10 minute conversation with 100 Londoners

• 80 Streets, over 8,000 Londoners so far

Local street Town square City place

5.8 6.1 5.9

Experience Experience Experience

Experience Experience Experience

Connector High street City street

5.5 5.2 5.8

Core road High road City hub

5.0 5.2 5.1

Experience Experience Experience

Place

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• Rated each street on each of the 10

indicators

• Higher ‘movement’ function means

lower healthy street score

Why develop a Healthy Streets Check?

• Healthy Street Survey can only be done once a scheme has been implemented, it doesn’t shape the design.

• Guidance on scheme design for cycling is good – Cycling Levels of Service – but doesn’t account for potential impacts on pedestrians.

• Currently no comprehensive level of service for walking – Pedestrian Comfort Guidance – important, but only one aspect of what

makes a street good for walking – Pedestrian Environment Review System (PERS) – subjective, time

consuming and can only be conducted by trained assessor

• Currently no objective means of assessing our 10 indicators of a healthy street

• Currently no obvious way to assess ‘place’

What is a Healthy Street Check?

• A Whole Street Approach

• Cycling, Walking, Place, Health

• 50 indicators – 16 shared, – 17 indicators for walking and cycling

• Cycling Levels of Service incorporated - No changes to CLoS indicators or classification system

• Almost half of CLoS indicators can already be applied to walking

• Additional indicators for walking and place

• All indicators mapped to our 10 indicators of a healthy street

• As with CLoS, no formal training is required to complete the Healthy Street Check, but guidance and training would be provided.

What does it look like? A spreadsheet!

• Each indicator is mapped against Healthy Streets to produce a score

Example indicators

Indicator Critical*

Basic LoS

(score=0)

Good LoS

(score=1)

Highest LoS

(score=2)

Healthy Street

Indicators

Left/right hook at

junctions

Heavy streams of

turning traffic cut

across main cycling

or walking stream

Side road junctions

frequent and/or

untreated.

Conflicting

movements at

major junctions not

separated

Use of entry

treatments.

Conflicting

movements are

separated at major

junctions with

dedicated stages

Side roads closed or

footway is

continuous. All

conflicting streams

separated in time and

space at signalised

junctions

- Easy to cross

- People feel safe

- People feel relaxed

- People choose to

walk or cycle

- Pedestrians from all

walks of life

Collision

alongside or from

behind

Nearside lane in

range 3.2 to 3.9m

Cyclists in nearside

traffic lanes (<3.2

or >3.9m) or

effective width of

1.5m

Cyclists effective

width of at least

2m wide

Cyclists separated

from motorised

traffic

- People feel safe

- People feel relaxed

- People choose to

walk or cycle

Clear continuous

walking spaces

free of

obstructions and

furniture

<1.4m width 1.4m-2m (If PCL D

or E triggers next

category)

2m-3m (If PCL D or

E triggers next

category)

>3m (If PCL D or E

triggers next category)

- People feel relaxed

- People choose to

walk or cycle

- Pedestrians from all

walks of life

Applying the HSC to Leonard Circus – before and after

Some early examples

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Royal College

Street

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After

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Clapham Old

Town

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After

Before

Aldgate High Street

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After

Before

Holborn Circus

How does it compare with

the Healthy Street

survey?

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Technical

Experience

Expectation

Falloden Road

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60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Essex Road

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60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Shoreditch

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40

60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

West Green

Road

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40

60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Caledonian

Road

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40

60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Camden High

Street

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40

60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Lady Somerset

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40

60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Chapel

Market

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60

80

100

Technical

Experience

Expectation

Spitalfields

Next steps

lucysaunders@tfl.gov.uk