There’s a city in China with a special sidewalk lane for people on cellphones

[marmar]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/15/6151857/chinese-city-installs-special-sidewalk-lanes-for-cellphone-users


It's the first rule of phone-walking: the more you check your phone, the slower you're going to walk. So last week, the Chinese city of Chongqing divided its sidewalks into two lanes: one for walking, and one for cellphones. If you're going to stumble around while scrolling through Instagrams, you'll have to do it on the left-hand side.

It's a good idea, and it's not the first time a city has divided up its sidewalks into fast lanes and slow lanes. In July, Washington D.C. pulled a similar stunt to promote a National Geographic show. A few years before that, an artist named Jeff Greenspan divided New York's sidewalks into "Tourist" and "New Yorkers" lanes, assuming anyone from out of town would have trouble keeping up. But maybe if a New Yorker is checking his cell phone, it cancels out?

[House of Roberts]

1. Cell phone sidewalks should have a sufficient number of trapdoors and open manholes

to thin down the herd, while providing entertainment for the rest of us!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I like the way you think.

[hobbit709]

4. sounds like a good idea to me.

[hifiguy]

3. A good idea.

Even in mid-sized Minneapolis, where I live, there are so many numbskulls that can't take ten steps without dicking around with their phone that they pay no attention whatsoever to where they are, whether there are people around them, or even traffic lights or, as I have seen a couple of times, actual oncoming traffic.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT ON YOUR PHONE ISN"T THAT FUCKING IMPORTANT unless you are a medical doctor or somehow otherwise need to be paying attention for life and death messages.

[marmar]

5. Yup, yesterday a woman walked right out into traffic ..........

....... face buried in her cellphone, and looked incredulous when people started honking and fussing at her.

[hobbit709]

6. we don't have sabertooths any more to weed out the slow and stupid.

so we have to invent new ways to do the same.

[hifiguy]

7. Reminds me of the old joke

"So many fundies. So few lions..."

[Mnemosyne]

8. Wish they'd do that here on the roads/streets. nt

[malaise]

9. They should call it Darwin's wall

Let them walk into each other