Sentence examples for footway from inspiring English sources

Yet most important, according to the Metropolitan Police, is the third crime – a violation of the 1835 Highway Act that prohibits the driving of any vehicle "on the footway".

The act makes it an offence "to wilfully ride on the footway", with only certain vehicles used by disabled drivers being exempt.

Not true – you can walk across the pedestrian footway for free.

A few days before the recent official opening, writer went over to Brooklyn and, starting at the Fort Hamilton end of the new span, took a walk to Staten Island - an experience that, unfortunately cannot be repeated because the bridge has no footway for pedestrians.

Once the footway starts swaying, however subtly, more and more pedestrians adjust their gait to get comfortable, stepping to and fro in synch.

Rather than blaming the pedestrians for swarming the footway, governments need to reinforce the foundations of the structure, by installing more stabilizers.

At quitting time, the suits swarm the bar, palming Heinekens and Pinots, popping pork-belly sliders like pieces of popcorn, clogging up the footways with their laptop cases.

The meaning suggested is "land on the boundary" which may make sense if the developer of each block left sufficient land undeveloped on the edge of his plot to provide for a rear access – these soon developing into public footways.

Better footways, bridges and segregated cycle tracks are promised.

In the 1890s people would have said bicycles, trains and, thanks to futurists such as HG Wells, mechanical footways (the first one was built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago).

According to CDF's Rhia Weston: "When the first FPNs for cyclists (targeting those who cycled on footways) were first introduced, the CTC sought assurance that fines would only be given out when a cyclist's actions were reckless and would endanger pedestrians – not, for example, when a cyclist uses an empty pavement to avoid a dangerous section of road.