Yet, pedestrians are a vulnerable group of people and safety concerns are a significant barrier in one's decision to walk.
The stretches of English coastline that do not yet have pedestrian rights of access are in various stages of negotiation involving landowners, user groups and other interested parties on the one hand, and the government's advisory agency, Natural England, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the other.
Yet some pedestrians seemed oblivious to its presence.
They also wittily yet tenderly isolate pedestrian structures as the cultural artifacts and often odd, sculptural entities that they were.
Half of those deaths can be attributed to three "pedestrian" yet persistently devastating diseases: malaria, H.I.V./AIDS and tuberculosis.
With housing crises to sort out, empty stomachs to fill and bureaucratic tangles to unravel, they have come to this social service agency on Webster Avenue in the Bronx for something more pedestrian yet somehow just as crucial: a haircut.
His entrance and some of the chordal writing in the first movement sounded oddly labored, yet moments later this pedestrian sound melted into as graceful and shapely a rendering of the solo line as you could want.
The other judges expressed loud dismay when Revel Horwood declared it pedestrian – yet by the next week the judges' consensus had become that young Smith really wasn't trying hard enough.
Yet this rather pedestrian model doesn't reflect a new plurality in music that is changing not just what people are listening to, but the way in which they listen.
David Burney, who runs the city's Department of Design and Construction, told me, "Ninety per cent of the people using Times Square are pedestrians, yet ninety per cent of the space was devoted to cars".
