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Chinese City Installs Special Lane for Pedestrians That Are Walking While Looking Down at Their Phones

  • Brian HeaterBrian Heater
  • September 15, 2014

Phone Lanes

The Chinese city of Chongqing has installed special lanes for pedestrians who prefer to stare at their cellphone screens while walking down the sidewalk. The self-proclaimed “first mobile phone sidewalks in China” were created on a road called Foreigner Street.

Phone Lanes

images via Tencent

via Simon James Cox, Chris Buckley, Tencent, Engadget

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