Low-Profile Traffic Separators

Typical Dimensions: Vary 

Cost: $$

Low-profile traffic separators are a family of low-profile, reflective vertical barriers that can be used to separate the roadway from spaces for people walking or biking, or to delineate traffic calming treatments, parking corrals, or intersection improvements. They can be orientated and spaced differently depending on the context of each facility. Low-profile traffic separators are mountable so do not obstruct access for emergency or maintenance vehicles. They may be combined with other vertical barriers, such as flex posts to increase the level of comfort for people walking or biking or to further reduce speeds.

London, England (Wikimedia Commons, sludgegulper, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Relevant Project Types

• Curb extension
• Mini-roundabout/neighborhood traffic circle
• Left turn hardening and slow-turn wedges
• Daylighting
• Chicane
• Median or pedestrian/bicycle refuge
• Demonstration path
• Bike Lane
• Shared Micromobility Corral
• Parklet
• Temporary Plaza