The Department of Transport is designing a sensible walking strategy.
It aims to encourage people to walk more by creating safer environments and slowing down cars.
The move is being compared to the Monty Python comedy sketch featuring John Cleese as an official from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Plans are being drawn up plans for wider pavements and pedestrian crossings which allow more time to get over the road.
It is all a response to figures which show people are walking a quarter less than they did in the 1970s.
Ministers think more walking - especially among children - will lead to healthier lifestyles.
A transport department spokesman told The Sunday Times there would be no instructions to people on how to move their legs. Officials just want to make the idea of walking more attractive.
One development is likely to be intelligent 'puffin crossing' which sense of a pedestrian is still on the road and so keep the traffic lights on red.