Pedestrian Safety Quotes

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

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.

I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.

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

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.

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

There's obviously a big difference between driving on the freeway in the desert, where there are no children playing or running over the road, than deploying it in a neighborhood.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.