Friendly Streets and driving in pedestrian-priority neighbourhoods
How to recognise a Friendly Street, its 40 km/h legal limit, driver-facing features, and the locations LTA lists as pilot or subsequent projects.
Friendly Streets and driving in pedestrian-priority neighbourhoods
Friendly Streets are LTA neighbourhood routes designed to make walking to local amenities safer, more convenient and comfortable. LTA says they are implemented in areas with high pedestrian flows near places such as markets, hawker centres, malls, community clubs, schools and MRT stations. Each location’s measures are tailored to its needs (LTA, Friendly Streets).
Recognising the zone and speed limit
Friendly Streets signs and green road-surface markings remind motorists to slow down when entering and driving in the zone. Selected signs at entrances and before crossings use the Friendly Streets logo to signal a pedestrian-friendly environment and remind drivers to be mindful of other road users, especially seniors and children (LTA, Friendly Streets).
The legal speed limit is 40 km/h in a Friendly Streets zone. The zone is demarcated by a prescribed Friendly Streets start sign and an end sign; follow the limit within that signed section (Road Traffic (Restriction of Speed on Roads) Notification, para. 2(3A); Road Traffic (Traffic Signs) Rules, Schedule, diagrams 12D(a)–(b) and 165A(a)–(b)).
Features and driver response
LTA says Friendly Streets may include reduced speed limits, more barrier-free pedestrian crossings with pedestrian priority, traffic-calming road markings and treatments, and wider or more accessible footpaths where possible. At signalised crossings with pedestrian priority, the Green Man is activated more quickly and gives pedestrians more time to cross (LTA, Friendly Streets).
Other site-specific features described by LTA include raised zebra crossings, kerbless crossings with wider centre medians, road humps, green road surfaces and longer pedestrian signal time. The design varies by neighbourhood, so look for the signs and markings, reduce speed, and approach crossings expecting pedestrians (LTA, Friendly Streets).
Locations listed by LTA
LTA's page lists five pilot routes: Ang Mo Kio Street 31; the key corridors of Bukit Batok West Avenue 5, Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, and Bukit Batok Streets 31, 32 and 33; Tampines Avenue 9; Lorong 2 and all of Lorong 1A in Toa Payoh; and West Coast Road between Clementi Avenue 2 and West Coast Link. LTA explicitly calls Ang Mo Kio Street 31 the first completed pilot. For Bukit Batok West and Toa Payoh, it says residents can now use the new crossings; its descriptions of Tampines and West Coast also present pedestrian-safety features as available. These statements show delivered features at the pilot locations but do not establish that the full scope of every pilot project is complete (LTA, Friendly Streets).
The same page's “Upcoming Friendly Streets” section names ten more areas: Bedok North Street 2; Buangkok Crescent; Pending Road, Bukit Panjang Ring Road and Bangkit Road; Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2; Holland Avenue, Holland Drive, Holland Village Way and Loring Liput; Jurong East Street 24; Cambridge Road, Owen Road and Kent Road; Punggol Shore; Sembawang Drive, Sembawang Vista, Sembawang Alley, Sembawang Way and Admiralty Drive; and Havelock Road and Indus Road in Tiong Bahru/Havelock. LTA's page, last updated 13 April 2026, still states that this batch was scheduled to begin construction progressively in 2025 and gives no current completion status for each project; the list is not proof that every route is now an operational Friendly Street (LTA, Friendly Streets).
Coverage debt
LTA's page, last updated 13 April 2026, describes delivered features at pilot sites but does not give current completion status for each project or establish a statutory register of operating streets. The ten later areas remain listed under “Upcoming Friendly Streets” despite the page's 2025 construction schedule. Use roadside signs and markings to identify the zone; the 40 km/h limit applies within a section demarcated by the prescribed start and end signs (LTA, Friendly Streets; Road Traffic (Restriction of Speed on Roads) Notification, para. 2(3A)).
Specified traffic offences committed or reasonably suspected within a defined Friendly Streets zone may also attract the zone-based DIPS and composition add-ons described in Driver Improvement Points System (Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules, rr. 2–3).