On Aug 2, 3:44*pm, Clive wrote:

In message , Tristan Miller
writes:
Exactly what disability causes people to walk slowly down the middle of a
narrow passageway? *Is there some affliction that prevents them from
keeping to one side, thereby allowing faster-moving traffic to pass them?
Or is "being inconsiderate of others" now classed as a disability?

I'm not disabled but am frequently confused by the use of the tube. * In
this country we drive on the left, so it is normal to walk on the left,
but the escalators say stand on the right. [...]*

And? It's results in the same outcome, in that others can walk on the
left.


[...] Londoners who should know
better frequently go against the arrows and arrive on a platform from
the exit, confusing the tourists. [...]

Perhaps they do that because they *do* know better! (Many tourists are
readily confused anyhow - if Londoners had to alter all their
behaviours so as to avoid confusing tourists, nothing would happen in
London.)


[...]* What's the convention for walking
through those small passages that interlink platforms etc?

On the left, as with staircases.