Enrique Penalosa Quotes

• Una ciudad avanzada no es aquella en la que incluso los pobres utilizan el coche, sino aquella en la que incluso los ricos utilizan el transporte público.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Cities, Car, Use

  "Why buses represent democracy in action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2013.

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• Si vamos a hablar de transporte, yo diría que la gran ciudad no es la que tiene autopistas, sino aquella en la que un niño en triciclo o en bicicleta puede ir seguro a todas partes.

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  Children, Cities, Tricycles

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

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  Children, Successful, Cities

  "Cities debate: teenagers talk London, New York, Johannesburg and Rio" by Carlene Thomas-Bailey, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Kissing, Space, Soul

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• 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 that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

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  Essence, Cities, People

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• 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.

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  Car, Important, Citizens

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• In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.

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  Niños, Años, Ciudades

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

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  Cities, Details, Sacred

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• The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

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  Loyalty, Things In Life, Cities

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

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  Car, Democracy, Sidewalk

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• We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

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  People, Bird, Needs

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• El transporte urbano es una cuestión política y no técnica. Los aspectos técnicos son muy sencillos. Las decisiones difíciles tienen que ver con quién se va a beneficiar de los modelos adoptados.

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  Simple, Issues, Decision

  "Cities bear the brunt of air pollution - they can also solve it" by Leo Hollis, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2014.

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• 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

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  Country, Powerful, Cities

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• Dios nos hizo animales que caminan: peatones. Como un pez necesita nadar, un pájaro volar, un ciervo correr, nosotros necesitamos caminar, no para sobrevivir, sino para ser felices.

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  Running, Animal, Order

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• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

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  Niños, Ciudades, Personas

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• Una premisa de la nueva ciudad es que queremos una sociedad lo más igualitaria posible. Para ello, la distribución de la calidad de vida es más importante que la distribución de los ingresos. [Y la calidad de vida incluye] un entorno vital lo más libre posible de vehículos de motor.

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  Motor Vehicles, Cities, Important

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

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  Class, Car, Parking

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