'Pavement rage' plan for shoppers

[Jake]

those dam scots again:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7657276.stm

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Hmmm ... on the one hand, I seem to be congenitally incapable of walking slower than about six mph when I'm going anywhere, and I hold my hand up to becoming annoyed with doddering old dears or people with children going at four mm/week and stopping to chat and look in shop windows; in short, clogging up the world while I'm trying to use it. But I also recognise that it's their right to be outside, just as much as it is mine, and it's rather nice that our streets are places that people can socialise and window shop in peace.
Still doesn't stop me wanting to pick people up bodily while shouting "WILL you get out of my F**KING way!!" sometimes.
It's a nice idea, but I don't think it'll work, and part of me rather hopes everyone just works out how to coexist on our pavements. As I have, even though I accept it doesn't look like that.

 

[HLaB]

If I want to walk fast I just avoid Princes Street. BTW My earliest memory of Princes St is preschool, when I got separated from my maw at one of the crazy crossing/ stampede's, its a scary place for a 4 year old

 

[Jake]

think they had the idea for londons oxford street, but never took off. It is just quicker to walk on the roads. I know in a perfect world people would just go about at a steady pace, but when your on a short lunch break and there are yummy mummys and tourits going at a normal snail pace, it is annoying when you just wanna grab a bite to eat. Not sure if the idea will work, how you enforce it etc. christ, they cant even enforce seatbelt laws and thats there to save lives.

 

[gavintc]

This is silly. As HLab has stated, just avoid Princes St north side. If I am in a hurry, I will use George St.

 

[magnatom]

That crazy east coast...

 

[lycradodger]

It's nuts. There is effectively a fast lane already in operation in Princes St: if you stick to the outside you avoid 95% of the dodderers and window shoppers. It is a pretty wide pavement. If they stick a separate fast lane in there then it would probably encourage pavement cycling, in my opinion. (Which would be bad.)

 

[yorkshiregoth]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1049698.stm

 

[LOGAN 5]

There should be a fast walking lane at London's rail stations for commuters who want to walk faster than the dawdle which everybody has to adopt when hundreds of people get off the train at the same time and stroll to the barriers. The dawdlers who have all day can dawdle and those who have somewhere to go at a specific time can get there on time

 

[Jake]

well thats the joy of going first class, in that you get off first and miss all the dwadlers. I was all up for ticket conductors and passengers telling off stadard class passengers who thought they could come into first class carriages at the end of the jounry to get off first.

 

[LOGAN 5]

I could never do that as I have my bike with me so couldn't walk through the carriages anyway. The trains are so crowded in the rush hour there shouldn't be first class at these times. people have to stand having paid full fare when there are empty seats in first class. The guards seem to take delight in making announcements about penalty fares for those who chance it and sit without the appropriate ticket. The train companies would prefer people to sit on the floor on crowded trains than let them sit in the empty first class areas.