In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.


Bjarke Ingels

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We recognise that all vehicles can be dangerous when in an accident with a pedestrian.
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Pedestrian bridges are never easy to implement. But we're excited about this one.
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A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
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Accidents happen every day. And not every driver that hits a pedestrian is charged with murder.
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ANTHONY FOXX
It's worth it to get pedestrian facilities into that neighborhood.
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EARL KING
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BRIAN GREENE
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AMBROSE BIERCE
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You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
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PIERCE BROWN
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
However, we would like to see him in a long-term position with Newry City.
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DEOBIA OPAREI
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BILL BULLOCK
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ALAN DUNCAN
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CAMILLE PAGLIA
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
GERARD WAY
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SONIA RAMIREZ
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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DEYTH BANGER
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Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.
SAM BROWNBACK
It's tough not to like record results, but in the wake of what Goldman put out, they seem pedestrian...
JEFF HARTE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Watch out for that pedestrian!"

"It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!
NEIL GAIMAN
This is a public show where people will drive in to see the cars.
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DON TAPSCOTT
We let development occur where it occurs, then we say, 'Oops, we gotta get transportation out there....
PETER EVERETT
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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