Quotes from Enrique Penalosa

God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

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

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.