The Importance of Walking in a City

Urban consultant Jeff's back includes in his planners pledge for making cities pedestrian oriented is to create a framework in which walking is truly useful safe comfortable and interesting. In Europe especially I'm thinking the Netherlands there's more two-wheeled vehicles than four-wheeled Vehicles on the streets of any Dutch town, but they rely on transit rather than cars. "I was in Copenhagen on the Strogue okay which is their mile-long pedestrian zone that's actually expanded beyond that street," he says. 'If everybody had a car we wouldn't even fit on this street'