What is Pedestrian?
A '''pedestrian''' is a person traveling on foot, whether [[walking]] or [[running]]. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a [[road]] or [[footpath]], but this was not the case historically. ==History== The main way humans [[movement|get around]] is by walking. The first humans walked out of Africa about 60,000 years ago. We walked across India to reach Australia. We walked across Asia to reach the Americas. We walked from the [[fertile crescent]] area to reach Europe. [[Image:Bauman Street.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The pedestrian [[Bauman Street]] in [[Kazan]]]] Nowadays, roads often have a designated footpath attached especially for pedestrian [[traffic]], called the ''[[sidewalk]]'' in [[American English]] and the ''pavement'' in [[British English]]. There are also footpaths not associated with a road which are used only by pedestrians, especially [[rambler]]s, [[hike]]rs or hill-walkers and there are roads not associated with a footpath. These footpaths, in mountains or forests, are called trails. [[Image:LightTunnelDetroit.jpg|thumb|200px|Colorful pedestrian ''Light Tunnel'' at Detroit's DTW airport]] Efforts are underway by pedestrian [[advocacy]] groups to make it easy to be a pedestrian in new developments, especially to counteract newer developments where 20 to 30 percent do not include sidewalks. Some activists advocate large [[auto-free zones]] where pedestrians only or pedestrians and some non-motorised vehicles are allowed. ==Related pages== *[[Walking]] {{Commonscat|Pedestrians}} == Other websites == {{wiktionary}} * [http://www.lehigh.edu/dmd1/public/www-data/kelly.html Early Pedestrians in North America] * [http://www.preservenet.com/politics/PedsRights.html US Pedestrian Advocacy Groups] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115642/http://www.preservenet.com/politics/PedsRights.html |date=2008-02-11 }} * [http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/ UK Pedestrian Advocacy Group] * [http://www.transalt.org/campaigns/reclaiming/ Transportation Alternatives: Pedes