City Councillor Henrietta S. Davis is looking to make Cambridge a walker's paradise.

That means everything from crosswalk safety to snow clearance at bus stops for her "model livable city."

"I have a vision of transforming Cambridge into the model pedestrian city," says Davis, chair of the council's Traffic and Transportation Committee.

Before last week's election, politcal pundits pointed to Davis' ninth-place finish in the 1997 council election as proof that her support base was weakening and that she might not survive for another term.

But survive she has. Not only that, but Davis increased her number-one vote total by more than 50 percent, from 926 in 1997 to 1470 this year.

Her campaign manager, Nate Hester, gave Davis live-in advice this summer.

Among the messiness of her campaign headquarters, Hester lived in her home during the summer and fall until the election.

"I try to beat [the messiness] back so I can have some space that isn't the campaign," Davis says.