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1856-CMP-01 [Prelim] August 2020
• Signs warning of works personnel
The Workers (symbolic) sign is used to give warning of personnel engaged in • Provision for pedestrians and bicycles
works on or adjacent to the travelled path as specified in Clause 4.7.2(a). As this Where pedestrians, including school children and people with disabilities or visual
sign is used to warn of the presence of personnel, it shall only be displayed when impairment, have to move through, past or around a work site or to cross the road
they are actually working, or are visible to traffic, or both, and shall be removed or within a work site, they shall be provided with and directed to suitably constructed
covered when workers have left the work area or are no longer visible to traffic. and protected temporary footpaths and crossing points, or formal pedestrian
crossings, or refuges if warranted. Pedestrian and bicycle paths should, where
The Traffic Controller Ahead / PREPARE TO STOP sign shall be used to give practicable, be provided on the same scale and to the same width as any facilities
advance warning where traffic may be required to stop in compliance with the for pedestrian or bicycle traffic that were existing prior to the works. If this is not
directions of a Traffic Controller. The sign shall be installed 2D in advance of the practicable, such facilities shall meet the requirements of Clause 2.3.8. – MUTCD
traffic control position where D is the greater value of the range of dimension given – 2019.
in Table 4.2. This should also be the sight distance from the traffic controller to
oncoming traffic. The sign shall not be displayed when the Traffic Controller is not
actually in attendance controlling traffic.
Traffic Guidance Scheme and Traffic Management Options Analysis
Option Description Closure Type Control Features TGS Reference
Measure
Around Vehicles Detoured Full Elimination/ Full width of road closed. Detour available with NOT SELECTED
Work around existing Closure/Detour Substitution minimum delay
Zone roadway/ Side-tracked
Past Vehicles past Part Road Isolation / Remaining lane width of 3.0m per lane can be SELECTED
Work delineated work zone Closure / Engineering / maintained on low speed residential roads SW-HOFF-TGS1
Zone Lateral Shift Administrative
Shoulder / Bus Isolation / Remaining lane width of 3.0m can be maintained on SELECTED
Lane / Parking Engineering / low speed residential roads SW-WALT-TGS1, 2 & 3
Lane Closure Administrative SW-NOOS TGS1 & 2
Contra - Flow Isolation / Where a multi-lane divided road can be utilised to run NOT SELECTED
Engineering / opposing lanes of traffic on one side. Remaining lane
Administrative width of 3.0m per lane can be maintained.
Lane / Turning Isolation / Remaining lane width of 3.0m can be maintained on NOT SELECTED
Lane Closure Engineering / low speed residential roads
Administrative
Single Lane Isolation/ Where two – way traffic cannot be maintained as per NOT SELECTED
reversible Flow Engineering/ above on two-way road. Remaining width of 3.0m
Administrative with 0.5m edge clearance shall be maintained to allow
for single file of traffic past work area
Temporary Isolation/ Traffic Controller/s may be required to hold traffic in NOT SELECTED
closure / work Engineering/ one or both directions briefly to allow for work vehicle
vehicle access Administrative ingress / egress
Through Vehicles through Temporary road Isolation / Hold and Release all traffic when safe to do so. NOT SELECTED
Work Work Zone closure/ Hold Engineering /
Zone and Release Administrative
Local Traffic Isolation / Locations where road features restrict NOT SELECTED
Access Engineering / implementation of above options
Administrative
Warning Pre-warning signage N/A Signage MUTCD approved and custom signage as required NOT SELECTED
Signage only placed as a warning to both vehicles and pedestrians
Pedestrian Management
Option Description TGS Reference
Around Work Zone Pedestrians diverted around work area (usually to NOT SELECTED
footpath on other side of road) utilising existing
crossing and/ or driveway
Past Work Zone Minimum 1.0m footway maintained past work area SELECTED
(on the verge or on the roadway) with appropriate SW-NOOS-TGS 1 & 2
delineation and protections in accordance with the
MUTCD
Through Work Zone Minimum 1.0m footway maintained through the work SELECTED
zone such that pedestrians are safely managed either SW-WALT-TGS2
under traffic control (e.g. Passage through /between
work area and parked work vehicle, or a designated,
delineated walkway through the development area
but away from specific work areas.
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