Excluding cell phone users from city sidewalks: The Chinese city of Chongqing is fed up with residents walking slowly through the streets with their faces glued to their smartphone screens. The solution: Authorities divided the sidewalk into two sections with an explicit warning: "A lane for users with mobile phones. Walking on this lane is at your own risk.".<\/p>\r\n
A city spokesman explained to Sky News: "There are many people, adults and children, walking on the street, and the frequent use of cell phones could cause disorder, shuffling, and even unnecessary collisions.".<\/p>\r\n
The new route attracted quite a few tourists who came specifically to the city to photograph the new arrangement.<\/p>\r\n
China is the country with the largest smartphone market in the world. It is estimated that there are approximately 700 million mobile phones in the hands of the local population.<\/p>\r\n
According to a study by the University of Washington, using a cell phone while walking may put the user at risk because they are less likely to look to the sides or at traffic lights. According to the study, the number of pedestrian deaths has increased since the use of cell phones.<\/p>\r\n
In Taiwan, they chose to combat the scourge of mobile phones in a slightly different way: a fine is imposed on anyone who talks on a mobile phone while crossing the road.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese city of Chongqing is fed up with residents walking slowly through the streets with their faces glued to their smartphone screens. The solution: The authorities divided the sidewalk into two parts with a warning that walking on the "talking" path is at the walker's sole risk.","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1448,3764,7051,1045,771],"class_list":["post-80766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","tag-1448","tag-3764","tag-7051","tag-1045","tag-771"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n