Continuous Sidewalk / Raised Junction
INT-CSJ-06 Continuous Sidewalk / Raised Junction
Related Media
The items below come from outside the Commonway System, external videos, podcasts, and articles related to this page's topic, not part of the guidebook itself.
The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - Continuous Sidewalks
Shows the same sidewalk-continuity concept behind Continuous Sidewalk / Raised Junction in practice: the roadway rises to meet the sidewalk at a crossing, rather than the sidewalk dropping to meet the road, so geometry itself signals the priority shift.
Are Roundabouts Actually Better Than Traffic Lights?
A real head-to-head test (Carmel, IN) backing the case for roundabouts on time, fuel efficiency, and crash severity, while being upfront about roundabouts' accessibility gap for blind pedestrians.
This is the key to safer streets
A full traffic-calming toolkit walkthrough, plastic mini-roundabouts, curb extensions, chicanes, the speed bump/hump/cushion/table family, and a Cincinnati road-diet case study with dramatic before/after crash data.
Typical at: Compact Urban Core
Suburban is an edge case, thinning for the same reason as Bicycle Boulevard: a disconnected, cul-de-sac-heavy grid gives it fewer places to apply. Undeveloped and Rural are unlikely pairings.
Design notes
This is the Commonway System's locked default treatment for Local-to-Collector intersections, giving priority to people walking and biking at the exact point where a slower Local street meets a faster Collector.
Related patterns
Default (Standard Local Street) (LOC-DEF-01) (the page that names this pattern as its own locked default Local-to-Collector treatment), Bicycle Boulevard / Neighborhood Greenway (LOC-BBG-12) (explicitly named on this page as thinning for the same connectivity reason)