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Streets for Pandemic Response & Recovery Index

Streets for Pandemic Response & Recovery
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Sidewalk Extensions

Sidewalk Extensions

Provide space for people to comply with physical distancing guidelines while walking or waiting.

Context
• Along main/high streets and major thoroughfares with essential businesses/services, high transit use, or crowded recreational paths.
• On streets with narrow or missing sidewalks that cannot be converted to local traffic only.

Key Steps
• Convert curbside parking or motor vehicle lane to pedestrian space.
• Protect lane with reflective barriers such as freestanding delineators or traffic barrels.

Timeline: Days to plan, hours to implement.

Duration: Days to months.

Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland created more space for physical distancing on Queen Street using asphalt ramps, white safety posts, and paint to delineate extended sidewalks.

Milan, Italy
Milan created a citywide plan to implement new pedestrian and bike facilities on 35 km of streets. On this 4.5-km corridor over its busiest subway line, the City used paint and markings to widen sidewalks and add a parking-protected bike lane.

Brookline, MA, USA
Brookline used cones and temporary signs mounted on freestanding delineator posts to extend sidewalks and create bike lanes along four high-volume streets.

Download the Sidewalk Extensions Street Strategy (pdf) >

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