Pedestrian = Bad Marketing?

[H]

Definitions

Pedestrian:

adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn: prosaic, prosy, earthbound]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University


Pedestrian:

Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose. See Synonyms at dull.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.



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Maybe this explains a lot. If you are “pedestrian” you are dull, a dull traveler? Why would anyone want to be a dull traveler? This is just plain bad marketing.

Does anyone know the root to how this word became to mean both “dull” and “ foot traveler”?

I find this interesting, what are your thoughts? What could we call it? Instead of Pedestrian Paths maybe we call them “Environmental Paths”? Instead of peds we call walkers and bikers H.E.F.’s (Humans of Environmental Friendliness).

I can see it now; the sign reads “NO CARS IN THE HEF LANE”

 

[BKM]

If you change it to "Humans of Environmentally Friendly Transport" (Or HEF-T) it would fit the United States better

 

[H]

If you change it to "Humans of Environmentally Friendly Transport" (Or HEF-T) it would fit the United States better

Even though you said it in jest, I actually like that!

 

[green lizard]

We went through this once for a marketing proposal...

We came up with th following wordsmithing excrement:

Foot Paths
Pepole Trails

(and the really out there) Life Ways

we decided to go with Mixed Use Recreational Trails
or MURTs

We did not win that one....

 

[H]

We went through this once for a marketing proposal...

We came up with th following wordsmithing excrement:

Foot Paths
Pepole Trails

(and the really out there) Life Ways

we decided to go with Mixed Use Recreational Trails
or MURTs

We did not win that one....

I like people trails!

Which one did you all use?

 

[jresta]

"footpath" is what they call the sidewalk in the UK/Australia/New Zealand so that one might be better.

Calling trails "bike/ped" or "multi-purpose" is cumbersome so i just call them "bike trails" and most folks not in on the planner jargon seem to understand that you can rollerblade and jog on them as well.

 

[green lizard]

I like people trails!

Which one did you all use?

Thanks for correcting my typing (people not pepole)

As I mentioned, we went with MURTs. All through
the presentation we were trying to sell them on MURTs.
MURT this MURT that....

We lost.