ABSTRACT
Until very recently, urban transportation policies in North America concentrated on accommodating the car and relatively little was done for pedestrians. There has been some public transportation investment in a number of metropolitan areas 1 over the last 30–40 years but it has not been large enough to make a real impact on reducing car trips, except in a small number of large cities. 2 Despite this, impressive research on pedestrian behavior and pedestrian-friendly street design has been published over several decades.
