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Pedestrian

The first person to walk around the world was Dave Kunst who started his walk travelling east from Waseca, Minnesota on 20 June 1970 and completed his journey on 5 October 1974 when he re-entered the town from the west.


Belle Vale, Liverpool

The area has not had a train service since Gateacre railway station closed in 1972; the disused railway trackbed has been converted into a cycle and pedestrian path from Aintree to Halewood, forming part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

Bill Boaks

The first is the pedestrianisation of London's Carnaby Street, which he took an active part in campaigning for, along with Screaming Lord Sutch, and which has set the precedent for pedestrian precincts elsewhere in the UK.

Bridge over Institute Street

The bridge was built in 2002 and provides pedestrian viaduct from the Palace of October Revolution (October Palace) to the Hlobus shopping mall on "Maidan".

Capilano Bridge

Capilano Suspension Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia across the Capilano River

Carwalking

Carwalkers normally do it, as a radical protest against the intensive motorization rates in cities whose one of the main consequences is illegal parking on sidewalks and areas exclusively allocated to pedestrians.

Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway

Highlights include an 18-space parking area, four pedestrian bridges that cross Mouse Creek, five underpasses (Raider Drive, Keith Street, 25th Street, 20th Street, and 17th Street), and a connection to the Prayer Walk Plaza at the Church of God International Offices.

Commonwealth MRT Station

Together with Queenstown and Clementi stations, an additional pedestrian link bridge linking the station to two new exits will be built, one on each side of the road.

Constitution Plaza

It shares its design "brotherhood" of multiple-style buildings connected by large, above-grade pedestrian spaces with two similar, but much larger renewal projects, Charles Center in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, and the Prudential Center complex in Boston, Massachusetts, although these two developments have been significantly altered and have also experienced varying degrees of economic and planning success.

Dandy horse

George Arliss, as the title character of the 1929 film Disraeli, rides a dandy-horse through a London park until he collides with a woman pedestrian.

Dombrücke

Tumski Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Wrocław, Poland built in 1889

Dragan Veselinov

He served under two Prime Ministers, Zoran Đinđić and Zoran Živković, from 2001 until 2003, before resigning under public pressure when his chauffer-driven government-issued vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian on the sidewalk in Belgrade.

Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

An automobile and pedestrian ferry crossing across the Rhine River runs from Leopoldshafen to Leimersheim.

Galloping Goose

Galloping Goose Regional Trail - bicycling and pedestrian trail in British Columbia, Canada

Grosvenor House Hotel

The hotel has a pedestrian entrance on Park Lane in Mayfair but this is not the 'main/courtyard' entrance which is actually on Park Street.

Hammerton

Hammerton's Ferry, pedestrian and cycle ferry service across the River Thames in Richmond upon Thames, London

Highway 2 Bridge

The Highway 2 Bridge is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River on the border of Johnson and Leavenworth Counties in De Soto.

Iron Horse Trail

Iron Horse Regional Trail, a pedestrian and bicycle trail in the San Francisco Bay Area in California

J-Walk

Jaywalking, either of two pedestrian street-crossing methods

Jeffersonville, Indiana

In February 2011, Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, would allocate $22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge project– creating a pedestrian and bicycle path to link Louisville and Jeffersonville.

King County Courthouse

An enclosed skybridge connects the courthouse to the King County Jail, and a pedestrian tunnel connects it to the King County Administration Building.

Lars Gule

Gule has explained that the DFLP proposed three targets for him: a bomb could be placed either be in a pedestrian underpass in Tel Aviv, in the President Hotel in Jerusalem or outside an apartment complex with gas containers outside in what was called a “bourgeois neighborhood”.

Long Beach Trail

The Long Beach Trail is a shared-use bicycle and pedestrian path running from Paterson River, Carrum, along the southwestern side of the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands, to Mordialloc Creek, Mordialloc.

Manly Beach

The Corso, a pedestrian plaza and one of Manly's main streets for shopping and dining, runs from the ferry wharf and harbour beach, across the peninsula to Manly Beach, where it marks the boundary between North Steyne and South Steyne.

Nevada State Route 582

By September 1994, Fremont Street west of Las Vegas Boulevard was permanently closed to vehicular traffic to construct the Fremont Street Experience, an outdoor pedestrian mall and light show attraction.

New London Union Station

Beginning in 2010, Union Station was considered a possible site for the United States Coast Guard Museum, which would have added a glass atrium north of the main station building as well as a pedestrian bridge over the tracks to a second waterfront building.

Ōi River

The river was bridged shortly after the Meiji Restoration, notably by the Hōrai Bridge in 1879 (which was listed as the world’s longest wooden pedestrian bridge by the Guinness Book, and by other road and railroad bridges.

Ömer Ali Kazma

His work was shown in the 7th and 10th Istanbul Biennial (2001, 2010), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (İstanbul, 2003), Cetinje Biennial (2004), İstanbul Modern (2004), 2nd Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions (2005), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2006) and San Francisco Art Institute (2006).

Panepistimiou Street

Panepistimiou Street (Greek: Οδός Πανεπιστημίου) (named after the University of Athens the central building of which is on the upper corner) is a major street in Athens that runs one way for non-transit vehicles since 2002 from Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square and Vassilissis Sofias Avenue to Omonoia Square in which is now a pedestrian crossing and before an intersection.

Passage SAS

At the same time, the brand developed construction applications, in particular by supplying the nosing for the Paris metro steps and equipping the pedestrian zones in cities such as Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Pelican crossing

A HAWK beacon, used experimentally in the United States with a standard pedestrian crossing signal, stops traffic when a pedestrian pushes a button to cross, but goes dark unless activated.

Queenstown MRT Station

Together with Commonwealth and Clementi stations, this station will see the construction of an additional pedestrian link bridge linking the station to two new exits, one on each side of the road.

Rica Takashima

After graduating with a Design Degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Takashima worked as a stage set artist and a freelance illustrator before she founded and launched the avant-garde street art show troupe and studio Aozora Art on Tokyo’s Harajuku Pedestrian Street.

S-1 Gard

Because of Bernoulli's principle, a decrease in air pressure between a larger object (such as a transit bus or large truck) and a smaller object (such as a pedestrian or cyclist) is created when passing in close proximity, resulting in a force that pulls the smaller object towards the larger object.

Saint Andrew's Junior College

A sheltered pedestrian bridge across the Kallang River connects the JC to the secondary and junior schools across the river.

Shogomoc River Pedestrian Bridge

Shogomoc River Pedestrian Bridge is a 265 foot suspension bridge in Canterbury, New Brunswick.

Sick AG

SICK/IBEO LIDARs were also used for obstacle avoidance, mapping and pedestrian tracking on WAMbot, the autonomous vehicle that came 4th in the MAGIC 2010 competition.

Soho Loop

There is pedestrian access to a tow path for the entire length of the outside of the loop, which skirts the southern boundary of Winson Green Prison and twice passes underneath the Stour Valley Railway.

St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge

It is surrounded on three sides by its namesake pedestrian alleyway, St Edward's Passage, whose 'Y-shaped' form has remained unchanged since at least the sixteenth century, and only possesses a tiny churchyard.

Storrow Drive

For example, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has proposed covering Storrow Drive near the pedestrian Arthur Fiedler Bridge, replacing the old overpass with a wide, ground-level park space that would better connect the green space of Boston's Public Garden with the Esplanade.

Strathmore railway station

A pedestrian underpass is situated at the Craigieburn end of the station and the railway crosses Moonee Ponds Creek a short distance beyond the station.

Teddy Stadium

The stadium has 5,000 parking spots on its premises, and is connected to the Malha Mall and its parking facilities by a pedestrian bridge.

The Queen's Walk

The creation of pedestrian access along the south bank of the Thames was seen as an integral part of the creation of the Jubilee Walkway to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977.

Transport in San Marino

Most of the tunnels are well preserved today and three of them have been checked for safety, provided with lighting and opened for pedestrian use.

Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted

When a pedestrian bridge connecting Nedre Elvehavn to the city centre of Trondheim was built in 2003, it was named Verftsbrua, meaning "the (ship)yard bridge".

Victoria Square, Birmingham

It is a short walk from St. Philip's Cathedral on Colmore Row and is on the main pedestrian route between the Bull Ring and Brindleyplace areas.

Waymouth Street, Adelaide

Across from the intersection with West Terrace is a service road for Adelaide High School and an entrance point to shared pedestrian and bicycle tracks in the western parklands.

William Street, Perth

This is followed by Murray and Hay streets, which are pedestrian malls to the east; and then St Georges Terrace, which is a through-route for vehicular traffic.

Yukon Suspension Bridge

The Yukon Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian cable suspension bridge located on mile 46.5 on the South Klondike Highway in Northern British Columbia, Canada.


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