(n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Example Sentences:
(1) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(2) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(3) Where the cycle track is signed to the left, continue on the footpath straight ahead, which runs beside the main railway - this will take you to Didcot station.
(4) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(5) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(6) The four people arrested in the Gloucestershire cull zone were held on suspicion of aggravated trespass after police responded to reports of horns being blown and individuals straying from a public footpath.
(7) And if you dare challenge a cyclist for riding on a footpath more often than not you are met with a tirade of verbal abuse.
(8) Describing itself as “probably the most famous pub in England”, it sits in a small valley just beside the Ridgeway, an ancient footpath considered to be Britain’s oldest road.
(9) Getting there: To reach the beach you must abandon your car in the village and take one of two footpaths down to the beach (10 minutes).
(10) At the main road turn left and after 25m turn right down a narrow footpath.
(11) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
(12) The footpath cuts low between grassy banks that immediately recall classic canal topography; two cast-iron bridges, still with their towing paths intact, complete the illusion.
(13) "The boy from Bassendean" is among more than 150 notable West Australians celebrated with a plaque inlaid in the footpath of Perth's St Georges Terrace.
(14) The biggest danger on our roads is motor traffic, not cyclists.” Freeman argued that cycling on footpaths was a danger to pedestrians and that cycling at night without lights posed a danger to all road users.
(15) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
(16) As the people farms begin to dot the landscape like melanomas, locally the numbers of beds in the local public and private hospitals do not increase; local footpaths remain largely inaccessible to the motorised scooters and wheelchairs increasingly used by the ageing and medical and support services for the aged and ageing do not keep pace with the size of the population planned by the people farmers.
(17) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(18) "In some places, it's as simple as moving fences to unlock stretches of footpaths on the river," she says.
(19) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.
(20) While the bridge was being built footpaths were used by workers to reach certain areas and heights.
Footway
Definition:
(n.) A passage for pedestrians only.
Example Sentences:
(1) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
(2) Exhibition Road is the largest example of such a space in Britain, although it is not the purest, as there is some slight differentiation between carriageway and footway.