A lot depends on where you are and if they are fast or slow. I'd use traps a lot, as in for the slow ones I would make a noose with strong tripwire and tie one end to something like a telephone pole, maybe 5 or 6 and if there's a crowd I could go and lasso it over the neck of the first ones in the group out of grabbing distance, and then go to the next pole and so on until I could deal with them single handedly and then come back to the lassoed zombies if they haven't managed to saw their own neck off. For the fast ones I would have a trap which would require you to throw a lever so you can time it to catch them, maybe with a diagram spraypainted on the ground/walls, so it's obvious how it works under stress. In an urban situation, it would be fun to have a zipline, so you could get a big crowd to follow you up a building and see what happens when you zipline off the roof to another one. Zombie lemmings.
Either way, I would like a sword, it may not be able to kill them all that well, but I can cut tendons and zombies are a lot less formidable if they can't grab you. The maul/axe is for finishing the crawlers off. Guns are more protection against crazy people.