Pattern 49
Looped Local Roads
Context Local Transport Areas11 · Identifiable Neighborhood14 · Parallel Roads23 · House Cluster37 · Work Community41
Problem
Residential streets laid out as direct through-connections attract outside traffic passing through — cars race along them, and the street stops being a safe, quiet extension of home life.
Solution
Lay out residential streets as loops that admit no through traffic, so that only the people who actually live there drive on them, letting the street become a calm, protected part of the home.
Usage T Junctions50 · Green Streets51 · Small Parking Lots103 · Car Connection113 · Network of Paths and Cars52