Our report Blueprint for Quality Public Transport shows how rail, bus and tram services can be transformed to provide a high quality alternative to driving. Living streets for the community Home Zones hand street space back to communities for tree planting, child play areas and places for people to meet. Traffic has to move slowly. Ealing, London, is one of several places in the UK where the local residents' group is working with the council to create a Home Zone. A Home Zone is a street where pedestrians and cyclists have priority and cars travel at little more than walking pace.
Home Zones are widespread in the Netherlands and Germany, and very popular too.
There, road humps, width restrictions and twists in the narrowed road make motorists drive slowly. There are trees, pleasant places to sit out and slides and rocking horses for children. In the Ealing Home Zone the roads will be redesigned as a shared space, with planting, seats, decorative paving and a community noticeboard. Transport 2000 and the Children's Play Council recently spearheaded a successful campaign for more money and a change in the law on Home Zones. At Home in My Street.