You know the feeling you get when you’re hurriedly making your way from A to B and you get stuck behind a slow walker?
The irrational fury that spreads through your body when you realise the person blocking your way is on their smart phone or worse, they’re just gazing off into space?
Well, good news purposeful walkers, Britain has it’s first ever pedestrian lane just for impatient jerks like you (and me).
A completely legitimate survey, commissioned by not at all self-interested shopping retailer Argos, found that nearly half of British people find walking behind slow pokes the most annoying aspect of high street shopping.
In response, the city of Liverpool is trialling a fast lane for fast paced pedestrians in one of its major shopping strips, which will remain in place for at least the next week.
The research also found that fast lanes were more popular with young people than old — 69% off 16 to 25 year-olds backed the plan vs. only 37% of people over 55.
And that the main reason was to save some bloody time already.
In 2014, National Geographic conducted a social experiment in Washington DC, where they created separate lanes for phone users and non-phone users.
Most people ignored the pavement markings, but some stopped to take photos of them.
On their phones.
Top Comments
Great idea! Next can we get stop signs for people who stroll out of shops and into the walkway with no regard for those whose path they've just cut off!
They have to do this because there is no common sense. If you need to stop and talk or are looking at your phone and walking slowly move over to the side. But the amount of people who just stop or dordle along taking up the whole footpath without any awareness of what is going on around them drives me nuts.