Spain may attempt to control the pace at which pedestrians walk down the street.
Pedestrians could also be breathalysed while on the street and subjected to drug tests on the spot if they are implicated in a traffic offence or a traffic accident.
The proposals are part of a package which is hoping to make the streets safer.
The Directorate General of Traffic earlier this year proposed a new “tool to foster better relations and coexistence between pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and vehicles”.
Most of the proposals are believed to focus on vehicle drivers, but the regulations for pedestrians would define them as “users of the road” and have the effect of regulating them in the same way as drivers.
Walkers would be restricted to a pace “not surpassing that of a normal stride”.
The government’s leading advisory council, the Council of State, issued a report which urged the government to reconsider the proposal as it would limit the freedom and personal privacy of Spaniards as well as their right to circulate freely.
Spaniards “could possibly abstain from fiestas or from attending weddings and celebrations where alcohol is consumed, since they could be subject to an alcohol test if a vehicle near them is involved in an accident”.
As for the speed limits suggested for pedestrians, the report worried it would amount to a “prohibition on jogging”.
The police already have the power to conduct alcohol and drug tests on pedestrians who break the law, countered María Seguí Gómez, the traffic directorate’s director.
Of the 370 pedestrians killed last year, more than half had alcohol or drugs in their veins, she said.