Minden Place – Queue Lengths and Turning Counts

The States of Jersey is seeking to improve the urban realm within St Helier.

Minden Place is part of a key route through the town, and proposals for wider pavements and reduced carriageway had to be balanced with the needs of local traffic.

Parking Perspectives were commissioned to collect traffic turning counts and queue lengths.

The study area included roads with multiple traffic lanes that were often blocked, causing lanes of traffic to merge. This required a particular approach to ensure that recordings could be differentiated between two distinct categories of queues: Those where vehicles could join freely, and lanes where available space for additional vehicles may exist, but they were prevented from queuing due to congestion in adjacent lanes. This distinction is especially important when reviewing the timings of traffic lights as short queues of traffic do not necessarily mean that traffic is successfully clearing.

Alongside the queue distances, turning counts were simultaneously undertaken. The data collected will be used in a traffic model.

Client: States of Jersey
February 2024