China’s Chongqing city gives texters their own lane

Not on the roads, not for driving, but for pavement walkers. Take a look at this picture from News.cn: you get the idea immediately yet I’m not convinced it’s been entirely thought through. That’s the main smartphone user’s lane with a No Phones lane to the left. But don’t those arrows make you suspect you’re going to walk into people coming the other way?

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