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June 18, 2018I went to college on a HUGE campus.
Nothing would annoy me more than having 15 minutes between classes on the OPPOSITE SIDES OF CAMPUS and navigating sidewalks full of idiots who couldn’t be bothered to look up from their phones.
MOVE! MOVE! MOOOOVE!
This was basically my theme song throughout undergrad:
Not sorry ’bout it.
Anyway… a city in China has the right idea. (Or maybe the terribly, terribly wrong idea. Depending on how you look at it.)
What is the world coming to https://t.co/1jTcd9n41x
— New York Post (@nypost) June 18, 2018
…I have too many conflicted feelings on this.
According to the New York Post:
If you’ve never run into anyone while walking down a sidewalk texting a friend or scrolling through Instagram, you’ve probably come pretty close. As a culture, we’ve become irrevocably attached to our phones, and sometimes it’s hard to look away, even for an instant. Of course, it would be great if everyone would just put their phones away while out and about, but one Chinese city has a novel solution that feels a bit like a “Black Mirror” episode.
Filipino publication the Inquirer reports that a new footpath has been built in the city of Xi’an, China, that is specifically for people who are on their phones. If you want to stumble around and stare at a screen on your way to work, there’s now a path just for you and all of the other phone addicts to walk on.
According to the report, the Yanta Road footpath measures 330 feet long and 31 inches wide, which should hopefully be enough room for smartphone users not to plow into one another. There’s also an image of a phone and the word “CELLPHONES” in all caps so that walkers will understand the risks of the path.
Some Xi’an citizens said they were on board with the project, but others pointed out that the footpath is next to a parking lot instead of a major thoroughfare. In other words, it’s a clever experiment, but it’s probably not going to see much use. Funnily enough, the path — built by a company called Meixin — was meant to bring attention to how much time we all spend on our phones, but has since become a tourist attraction … which means there are now dozens of people snapping pictures of the path with — you guessed it — their phones.
Womp Womp WOOOOOOOMP.
Thoughts?
