In London's Oxford Street shopping precinct, Westminster City Council is planning setting up
a fast pedestrian lane, and fining dawdlers who hold up traffic.
Perhaps an idea whose time has come;
one thing the Newtonmas shopping brings home is how irritating it is to be
stuck behind human walls of slow-moving pedestrians, dawdling along at a slovenly pace, oblivious to the fact that those behind them may actually be
wanting to go somewhere, rather than out for a
leisurely stroll in the crowd. (link taken from Rebecca's Pocket)