AIUI the whole point is to force both pedestrians and drivers to switch
their brains on. That can only be good can't it?



Sadly, increasing numbers of both appear to have no brains to switch on, and
the 2 forms of traffic (foot and wheeled) need to be kept apart by as sensible
means as possible. This has been, for about a Century (or longer in some
places) by means of kerb and bollards. Why reinvent the wheel now?

Pedestrians and drivers need to know their demarcation: pedestrians on the
pavement, vehicles on the road. Simple. Straightforward. Each knows where he
can and can't (or shouldn't) go. Why make life impossibly difficult for all
those that are too stupid to make these decisions for themselves?

In an age of dumbing-down, this invention of "choice" seems a retrograde step,
and will inevitably lead to those incapable of making the right choice to make
the wrong one.

Marc.