… or maybe sidewalk humps for my American readership. Either way, they’re a pain to walk on.
There seem to be so many different types and colours depending whether you’re approaching a crossing, a cycle lane or just about anything else.
Fine, but why have they been designed to cause maximum discomfort? Even worse, wear heeled shoes and they’ll trip you up. Wear trainers and you’ll be skating across them as soon as it rains. As you approach a road, they angle down towards it, delivering pedestrians at speed and off balance into oncoming traffic. Are they meant to be some kind of safety feature or a method of culling the walking population, sighted and non-sighted alike?
Presumably they were invented by people wearing flat rubber-soled shoes who assume that everyone else should be wearing them too.
Inventor’s punishment: Blindfold, white stick, high heels… now try and cross that road, buddy.
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