Padded Lamp Posts For Silly London Phone Users
There are many ways to hurt yourself on today’s streets but walking into lamp posts isn’t one that crops up too often. Until now.
Now, for those phone users who just can’t stop walking into them while ‘walking and texting’, there’s a solution. No, not some useful adverts and advice about watching where the bloody hell you are going but, padded lamp posts.
A trial in London’s busy Brick Lane is underway to help careless pedestrians from really injuring themselves when they smack into very visible, 15m tall metal poles. This time, they’ve got white padding to dull the impact. The pilot scheme is the work of Living Streets, a UK campaign group on behalf of pedestrians, who believe the crashes are really down to the crappy pavements and the “higgledy piggledy” layout of bins, signs and other objects. Right. Less mobile texting might help more.
If successful, the group is going to pad lamp posts in other major UK cities. I despair. What next, the automatic arse-wiping machine? Oh, there already is one of those. -Martin Lynch
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