refuge island

English

Noun

refuge island (plural refuge islands)

1. A raised platform or other protective barrier in the middle of a street crossing, allowing pedestrians to pause safely in the middle of the road.

Synonyms

• pedestrian island
• pedestrian refuge

Translations

raised platform or other protective barrier in the middle of a street

• Bulgarian: транспортен остров m (transporten ostrov)
• Catalan: illot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安全島／安全岛 (zh) (ānquándǎo)

• Danish: trafikø c
• Finnish: liikenteenjakaja
• German: Verkehrsinsel (de) f
• Korean: 안전지대 (ko) (anjeonjidae)
• Polish: azyl (pl) m
• Russian: острово́к безопа́сности (ru) m (ostrovók bezopásnosti)
• Spanish: isleta f
• Swedish: refug (sv) c
• Turkish: orta kaldırım, refüj (tr)

See also

• traffic island

Further reading

• refuge island on Wikipedia.Wikipedia