"I have a favorite saying about transportation: 'If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.' It sounds obvious, but when I make this point to audiences around the country, it's a real eye-opener. They love it. The power of this simple idea is that it reflects basic truths that are rarely acknowledged. One such truth is that more traffic and road capacity are not the inevitable result of growth. They are in fact the product of very deliberate choices that have been made (for us, not by us) to shape our communities around the private automobile. We as a society have the ability to make different choices--starting with the decision to design our streets as comfortable places for people..."

--Fred Kent, Project for Public Spaces