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1IIIIIII1/1111111llllll1: Office of The Secretary
1IIIIIII1/1111111llllll1: Office of The Secretary
In order to provide additional safety measures for pedestrians crossing the national road and
as a suppletory to D.O. No. 62, series of 2011, pedestrian refuge island shall be provided
along the center of the carriageway where pedestrians may safely wait until vehicular traffic
clears. Henceforth, the following guidelines on the proper location and installation of
pedestrian refuge island in conjunction with the pedestrian crossing markings are hereby
prescribed:
2. The island shall be installed at the following locations where there are concentration
of pedestrians:
2.1 In front of school, church, market and other areas for public use.
2.2 At approaches of unsignalized intersection.
3. The island shall have a minimum width of 1.50 meters and total length of 30.0
meters, (Figures 1 and 2).
4. Minimum distance between two consecutive pedestrian refuge island along the
highway shall not be less than 500 meters.
5. At-grade crosswalk passage shall be provided for the entire width of refuge island
having width of less than 5.0 meters in order to provide convenient accessibility for
Persons With Disabilities (PWD), (Figures 3 and 4). For refuge island having width of
more than 5.0 meters, ramp for PWD shall be provided.
6. All approach nosing of pedestrian refuge island shall be provided with arrow sign,
pedestrian crossing warning signs and pavement markings, (Figure 5).
7. For roads having carriageway width of six (6) lanes or more, pedestrian overpass
structure shall be provided instead of at-grade crosswalk.
GELIO L. SINGSON
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3. ROAD SIGNS INSTALLATION AND PAVEMENT MARKI NGS lAYOUT
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1. APPROACH NOSING OF PEDESTRIAN REFUGE ISLAND
SHALL BE SEMI-CIRCULAR IN SHAPE
2. REFER TO D.O. 37,S. 2009 FOR DETAILS OF RAMP FOR PWD.
3. ROAD SIGNS INSTALLATION AND PAVEMENT MARKINGS LAYOU' rr
SHALL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ROAD SIGNS AND PAVEMENT
MARKINGS MANUAL,2012.
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