home zonen.
/ˈhəʊm ˌzəʊn/, U.S. /ˈhoʊm ˈzoʊn/ British. Town Planning.
A residential area in which a variety of traffic-calming measures are employed to create a safer environment for pedestrians. Cf. woonerf n.
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1992 Daily Mail 6 Aug. 13 Safety first Home zones with a 20mph speed limit..are being proposed by the Transport and Health Study Group.
2000 Transport Matters Spring 2/5 The transport blueprint aims to help pedestrians by: cutting traffic speeds near homes using speed humps, road narrowing and 20 mph areas; setting up ‘Homezones’—whole areas where pedestrians come first.
2005 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 15 June 22 It [sc. the housing development] is also likely to be a ‘home zone’ where priority is given to pedestrians and traffic limited to 10mph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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