Getting from Car to Store

From transalt.org:

Christopher DeWolf: "Traffic engineers want streets to act as traffic funnels; to them, pedestrians are mere nuisances. Instead of trying to force pedestrians to conform to streets designed primarily for cars, why not adapt them to the behavior of pedestrians?"

Dylan Reid, of the city-created Toronto Pedestrian Committee, suggests that narrowing lanes and widening sidewalks is a good way to encourage walking and slow down traffic. "The speed of traffic is not related to efficiency," he explains. Consistently slow traffic makes for streets that are less dangerous, less noisy and a lot more pleasant -- while still moving cars along at a steady pace.