Bicycle Quote by Enrique Penalosa

If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where…

— 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…

— Enrique Penalosa

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…

— Enrique Penalosa

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

— Enrique Penalosa

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all…

— Enrique Penalosa

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

— Enrique Penalosa

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city…

— Enrique Penalosa

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

— Enrique Penalosa

Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going…

— Enrique Penalosa

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.

— Enrique Penalosa

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted…

— Enrique Penalosa

We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with…

— Enrique Penalosa