Tuesday 3 September 2013

Pedestrians crossing the road.


"Two pedestrian surveys were undertaken by Transit New Zealand in 2004 for a continuous
2 hour morning and evening count to represent typical AM and PM weekday peak periods.
This survey also measured approximate waiting times, which ranged from 1 to 109 seconds,
with an average delay per pedestrian of 38 seconds. During the survey, observations were
made on the pedestrians crossing the highway, including 3 instances of pedestrians stuck
in the middle of the road, in one case for up to 66 seconds, and at least 3 observations of
vehicles sounding their horns and cases of braking by vehicles to avoid pedestrians crossing
the highway.
The survey result was extrapolated, using the weekly train timetable, and it was assessed
that 1006 train passengers were crossing the highway between Monday and Friday in the
peak hours and 377 non-train passengers with an additional 600 crossing in the weekday off
peak. The total volumes calculated for the weekend were 512, which total 2495 pedestrians
crossing the highway at this location during a 7 day week. This is an average daily pedestrian crossing number of 356 per day.
In the household survey undertaken in 2008 a number of respondents referred to how unsafe
they felt cycling or walking alongside SH1 particularly between Haunui Rd and preschool
facilities and shops."

http://www.pukeruabay.org.nz/community/PukeruaBayNAP.pdf

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