Abstract: The way cities are organized constitutes a potential for increasing demand for motor based travels, road infrastructure needs and vehicles. This encourages energy profligacy, pollution, visible declining service levels in spite of increasing transport based investments and needless changes to our microclimate. All these threaten city sustainability. This study, relying on a current study from Akure Nigeria discusses the nature of travel patterns and characteristics from a Third World city. The methodology of study entailed the use of household based questionnaire survey exercise conducted on 360 household heads that were selected using the stratified systematic sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the intensity of travel characteristics and reported travel problems. The study affirms close relationship between intra urban travels and urban land use arrangements as well as travel characteristics which are dominantly work trips, commercial trips, ecclesiastical trips and recreational trips. Recommended policy thrusts include the need for reducing the number of vehicles in circulation hence an urgent viable mass transit scheme intervention is anticipated. Also, walkways and cycle ways need be provided and landscaped to attract patronage. This will ensure safety and guarantee �clean city mobility�. Beyond these, long term interventions of compact city development and regional balance around emerging cities of the Third World were proposed.