The Dreaming of Stones

"Although he was occasionally one himself, Manzoni hated pedestrians, as revealed when referring to the Council decision not to proceed with legislation to make it illegal for pedestrians to cross the urban freeway at surface level near subways: ‘It became necessary therefore to consider the substitution of attraction for compulsion in order to achieve a carriageway free of pedestrians.’ Like a certain prime minister, he saw the issue of whether such legislation would stand up in law as irrelevant."*

You'll not get the glory of these scenes at this size. Best to look at the originals.

*Peter Walker, Mark Norton