I apologize if this has come up before, I am simply looking for a quick response to what is probably a dumb question, and didn’t have time to do a formal search.

I’m doing a "research paper" where I randomly roam the streets of my hometown, and then comment and reflect on them.  I was thinking about a good title and thought up "Pedestriation".  It doesn’t really matter if it is a real word or not, I thought it would just be cool to check what "real linguists", and not the armchair variety like myself, thought.

Here’s my line of thinking: A pedestrian pedestrates, and thus he/she is engaged in pedestration.  Does pedestrates seem like the right verb form?

Or pedesterate, since the original Latin root is pedester, "going on foot". But there are two real words that have done this job already: pedestrianize or pedestrianate. Maybe the latter is better, giving pedestrianation, since the former has since been hijacked by town planners, to mean "to make into a pedestrian-only area".
There’s also a certain unpleasant hint of pederast about pedestrate or pedesterate, which might best be avoided ...
There are also ambulation, perambulation and circumambulation, which might also do the job.

Grant

It used to be said that there are only two kinds of pedestrian:

The quick and the dead.

(Those of a biblical persuasion will recognise the expression.  The rest will just write this off as Derek rambling again  :) )

So you’ve been for a walk across a New York City street, have you?

How about Rambling Thoughts...

;D

Comes off to me as intended as a pun on ‘predestination’...but I’m kinda weird… ::)