Foot Traffic Quotes

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.

When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic.

People do get out of my way when I'm walking to the shops.

Multiplexes need to be partners in increasing footfalls, but they have been too focused - maybe rightly so - in expanding their footprint of screens, because we are such an under-screened country.

Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.

Online is not contributing in the same way as the high street in terms of business rates and to the local community.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.