"Das Auto macht uns total verrückt" (el coche nos hace volvernos totalmente locos)
- Hermann Knoflacher
El Prof. Knoflacher, cabeza desde 1985 del Instituto de Planeación y Tecnología del Transporte de la Universidad Tecnológica de Viena, responsable de la caminabilidad y bicicletabilidad de esa ciudad, para ilustrar los problemas relativos al transporte urbano, desarrolló el concepto de "Gehzeug", o "Máquina de caminar". Esta máquina de caminar, es esencialmente, un marco de madera que puede ser cargado por un peatón, de modo que utilice el mismo espacio que un conductor de coche.
En inglés:
"In the early seventies a new transport plan for the city centre was developed (Knoflacher 1970) converting most of the streets in the city centre into pedestrian areas. This was realized in 1972 and since then the city centre of Vienna became an attraction for the region and for the country; it has become a global attraction and a global heritage. Two-thirds of the people coming into the city centre use the public transport, or come as pedestrians and cyclists. Since Vienna had no cycling tradition it had to be developed from scratch. Due to sound scientific research the city established a cycling department which built more than 800 kilometres of cycle tracks during the last twenty years. Today Vienna is one of the most famous cycling cities. Cycling brings money into a city, it makes the city attractive, it gives people health and is an excellent, cheap urban mode of transport."
