Phone Addicts Lane: Chinese City Creates World’s First Street Lane For People Who Walk While Texting (Photos)

Authorities in Chongqing city seem to have finally realized the fact that they’re never going to be able put a stop to texting while walking, as such they decided to go for minimizing the risk instead. So they set up a special lane for pedestrians who are hopelessly addicted to their mobile phones.

The special lane was created on Foreigner Street, which is a tourist hot-spot in Chongqing – in order to reduce collisions. So the sidewalk is basically divided into two
halves – one labeled ‘cell phones, walk at your own risk’ and the other marked ‘no cell phones’.

 The inspiration for a ‘texters’ lane’ according to reports was actually born out of an experiment conducted by National Geographic in Washington D.C. which made them divide a sidewalk in half, reserving one lane for texters. Lolz! isn't that a crazy creativity? we probably would need that in Naija soon.