The chapter articulates a new history of motion based on the lives of residents who pushed carts over small bridges and steered horses and mules across the city’s streets. Carters gained concessions from city officials by creating new businesses that supported government efforts to maintain public order, defined at the time as building and maintaining the city’s infrastructure. Coachmen created safe havens across the city in response to officials’ attempts to regulate the movement of enslaved and formerly enslaved people at night. During the day, they gathered information to make money on the side. Their history shows that residents took over the streets to sustain themselves, and in doing so, facilitated commercial activity.