pedestrian infrastructure Quotes

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.

It seems quite impossible to walk in America.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.