the adventures of pinkaholic girl

left, or right?

Dear London,

I have a dilemma. As you know, your citizens drive on the LEFT hand side of the road. In most countries, pedestrian traffic would logically follow the same side and everything would be at peace. For instance, in the happily LEFT hand side country of Australia, we walk on the left, loiter on the left, and stand still on escalators on the left. However, it appears that an American company sold you an escalator some time in the past, showed you how to use it in an American way with people standing on the RIGHT, and you shrugged your shoulders and accepted this strange new custom without fully grasping the consequences of this action.

The result is in 2006 you have confusion in the streets. Not just confusion, but mayhem! Your citizens no longer have an acceptable standard of which side of the road to walk on. In tube stations, you walk on the right. On National Rail, you walk on the left. On footpaths - who knows? There is no right or wrong way! Just MAYHEM! People walk wherever they like, possibly depending on which mode of transport they catch on a regular basis. There is no sign to guide them, like there are in tube and rail stations. People are just free willed, and take whatever pavement is available to them. It's nuts! You have to fix it! How can I be a good London citizen if you can't offer me the security of a proper side to walk on?

Yours temporarily (until I fly to France on the 10th of October),
pinkaholic girl

posted by d @ 4:09 pm