“Crafting a 21st-century transportation system entails much more than concrete, asphalt, bricks, and mortar. It’s vastly more complicated than building highways and mass transit systems. It’s about building and connecting communities.”
— Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm

“Context-sensitive design is an approach that places preservation of historic, scenic, natural environment, and other community values on an equal basis with mobility, safety, and economics.”
— Mary E. Peters, Director, Federal Highway Administration

“Context-sensitive highway design considers an area’s built and natural landscapes; takes into account the environmental, scenic, aesthetic, historic, community, and preservation impacts of a road project; and provides access for other modes of transportation such as bicycles, pedestrians, and mass transit.”
— Scenic America

“Your old road is rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand,
For the times they are a-changin’.”
— Bob Dylan