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  • Functionality.
    They must operate smoothly and efficiently.
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  • Sustainability.
    They must be readily adjusted to meet changing conditions, be easily upgraded, be well maintained, be safe, be immune to degradation.
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  • Low cost.
    “Spaces for People” can be erected at a cost that compares with the cost of a traditional walking/biking trail; this is about 1/30th the cost of building a highway.
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  • Fast, low-cost planning.
    A community can design and plan a “Spaces for People” network very quickly, with minimal cost and little risk of design flaws. The pre-fabricated components will be shipped and assembled on-site by the manufacturer with no cost overruns or construction delays.
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  • Non-intrusive after completion.
    Since “Spaces for People” do not have to support heavy cars and trucks, they do not have massive concrete columns and steel beams. Instead, they are more like an airplane – very strong, sleek and lightweight.
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  • Use of low-cost and green materials.
    The travelways and floors are – would you believe – wood. Renewable and green wood. Below we will show you pictures and examples of wood walkways still in great condition after 150 or more years of use!
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  • Suitable for all ages, all types of people and for all categories of use.
    Bike trails are great for bikes, walkers and runners. Some are paved and serve handcycles and roller-bladers as well. And, they are great for children, seniors and everyone in between. “Spaces for People” travelways are just like that. But, there are two big differences: 1. “Spaces for People” are still great when it’s raining, snowing or late at night. 2. “Spaces for People” travelways can lead you to where you want to go. When people bike for recreation they start – go – return to the starting point. The trail often run alongside a river, a converted rail line or through public lands. But for commuting to work or school or for going shopping we need a travelway that leads from our home to our work, school and shopping centers. That’s what our travelways do – they provide mostly utility transportation during rush hours and they serve recreational uses evenings and weekends.
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  • Require the minimum amount of land area.
    A highway, a regional rail line or a bike trail require land. Land is a non-renewable and valuable resource. In urban areas it is often unavailable. When land is converted, that’s it. The “Spaces for People” pass over existing streets, public parks, light industrial areas, along pipelines or along a riverbank. They are elevated; “Spaces for People” form a new layer, overtop of the cars and trucks and their roadways. When you are walking or riding a bike inside the “Spaces for People”, you are “King-of-the-Road” riding on the balcony of your own penthouse looking down on those poor souls stuck in traffic, noise and diesel fumes on their streets below.
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  • They must be comfortable, pleasant and ‘cool’ for the users.
    A great deal of consideration has been given to making our “Spaces for People” functional, pleasant and a fun, ‘cool’ place to be. The design includes sophisticated computerized access control and security systems – so kids and women feel safe; entertainment systems; and, a world-wide social networking site – voice activated, so you can communicate with a ‘friend’ in Paris or Bangkok while you are both riding your bikes to/from school.
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  • They must maximize usage.
    “Spaces for People” incorporate many well-known attributes that will attract users. When it comes to cost justifying a public facility, the more people using it, the easier it is to justify and the more effort that will be expended to keep them well maintained and popular. These include: low fares, on-time performance, lots of entrance and exit points, being comfortable, etc.
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  • Improve Quality-of-Life
    I believe “Spaces for People” networks will significantly improve the quality-of-life for many millions of people.

    They will do this by changing communities’ mobility structure and by ‘enabling and encouraging’ positive changes in daily activities.
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  • Provide an Alternative Transportation System
    Everyone likes to have options; we all have preferences and want to choose what is best.
    Especially within the USA, people often do not have a viable choice – there is no alternative for personal mobility. Many feel they must jump into their car to go to the store, to get to work or even to go to the gym. “Spaces for People”, as proposed here, provides an alternative transportation system. Within the protected travelways you can safely pedal a bike, ride an electric bike or scooter or pleasantly walk regardless of the hour or the weather.
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  • Reduce Traffic Congestion
    Combat traffic congestion and its unimaginably high cost – wasted time, stress and anxiety and frustration, fuel and vehicle depreciation costs, public highway repair and construction costs (which further contribute to the congestion).
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  • Provide An Extensive Recreational Facility
    Provide a community-wide Recreational Facility that is safe, usable 24 hrs per day, every day, in all weather conditions, free and easily accessible from any point in the community.
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  • Increase Real Estate Values
    “55% of prospective homebuyers want a home with a mix of single-family and other higher density housing, sidewalks, shops, schools, and public transit within walking distance.” 2004 National Community Preference Survey
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  • Reduce Pedestrian Deaths and Injuries
    People have the right and the desire for a safe, tranquil environment within their community.
    We should be free to move about our neighborhood without fear of being injured.
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  • Enable and Encourage a Healthier Lifestyle
    Childhood obesity, an ominous increase in the number of overweight adults and a widespread lack of regular aerobic exercise have reached epidemic proportions, according to many medical experts, in the USA and other societies. Our children are taught, by example, that jumping into a car for every trip to school or meeting with friends is the preferred way. Sedentary lifestyles have become the norm. Physical education programs in schools have waned. Children ride schoolbuses to school instead of a bike, which would make them trim and fit instead of fat.

    The “Spaces for People” would enable and encourage many people to change their lifestyles - to fight their addiction to driving a car for every outing, get more exercise and improve their health.
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  • Improve Social And Cultural Interaction
    “Quality environments that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport help social and cultural interaction. This creates vibrant healthy communities and encourages social responsibility through increased human contact.” UITP Sustainable mobility report
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  • Generate Business Opportunities and Create Jobs
    Advertising, solar cells, hydrogen distribution, concealed utility lines, package delivery system, concessions, links to commercial properties, bike tourist facilities along cross-country routes.
    required bikes and other vehicles, enable people to be more mobile, enable people to get to jobs and school,
    Provide Opportunity through mobility – Particularly in 3rd world countries give women the ability to travel to find work and opportunity.
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  • Enable and Encourage Reallocation of Economic Resources
    By providing drivers with a viable alternative - such as “Spaces for People” - public sentiment may begin to favor diversion of public funding away from new road construction and more parking lots and into ‘people friendly’ projects.

    The number of cars per capita would be stabilized or reduced. Enabling and encouraging urban dwellers to use an occasionally rented car instead of owning one; and affluent suburban families to maintain one car instead of two or three.

    Improve the desirability of the city: Cities with poor public transport and poor mobility solutions are less attractive for living and working; they suffer economically. The “Spaces for People” add a new, more desirable mobility solution.
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  • Reduce Usage of Fossil Fuels
    Reduce the consumption of fossil fuel. Save money on gas and diesel fuel.
    Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, air pollution and noise pollution;
    And, make a contribution to reducing your country’s dependency of foreign oil and the transfer of wealth to oil producing countries.
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  • Reduce Healthcare Costs
    There is well over $100 billion annually spent, in the USA alone, directly related to obesity, lack of regular aerobic exercise and a scarcity of popular, accessible, stress relieving daily physical activity. By promoting aerobic cardio-vascular exercise, promoting physical activity (burning calories thereby reducing obesity, reducing stress), reducing pedestrian deaths and injuries and by reducing air pollution (WHO estimates 700,000 deaths could be prevented by eliminating it).
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  • Provide an Emergency Transportation System
    Provide an Emergency Transportation System that is separate from traditional streets, functions independently from the power grid, is unaffected by flood or heavy snows, does not require ‘drivers’ thereby precluding labor strikes, is immune from roadway blockages due to disabled vehicles, does not depend on pumping gasoline nor on traffic signals.
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  • Encourage Traffic Calming Regulations. Increase Cities’ Revenues.
    Legislation to combat traffic congestion and its urban blight has often been proposed, but such laws have been implemented in only a few cities. Legislation, in the form of congestion taxes, increased tolls, increased parking fees and more stringent enforcement of traffic laws, discourages driving private cars into the cities. By providing drivers with a viable alternative - such as “Spaces for People” - public sentiment and arguments against such center city traffic reduction and ‘traffic calming’ measures would be reduced.
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  • Reduce Impact on Wildlife and Natural Resources
    By employing non-intrusive construction, surface travelways can be provided that have minimal impact on wildlife, the environment and natural resources.
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