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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 17160300" data-attributes="member: 158020">ස්මාට්_කට්ටියට_විතරයි-China Makes Special Sidewalk Lanes for Smartphone Addicts- Walking the streets in any major city today is a peril for pedestrians,  not from cars, but from fellow pedestrians who are too engrossed on  their smartphones to see where they are going. Despite warnings from  authorities about the risk of texting while walking, scores of  tech-addicts walk with their heads buried on their cell phones, forcing  others to dodge out of the way to avoid collision. To make the sidewalks  safer for elderly people and children, the city authorities in  Chongqing, China, have designated a 100-feet stretch of sidewalk in busy  entertainment district as “cellphone lane” for people who use their  phones while walking. The sidewalk was split into two lanes – one  labeled “No cell phones”, while the other reads “Cell phones. Walk in  this lane at your own risk.” The idea seems to have been inspired, in fact, directly copied, down  to the stencils spray painted on the pavement, from a project by a  television program on the National Geographic channel earlier this year,  on Washington, D.C as an experiment into crowd behavior. That study  found that only a few people changed which side of the pavement they  walked on even after spotting the signs. No wonder, few people in  Chongqing are taking the sidewalk seriously. Some were seen snapping  pictures of the stencils and the blue sign that read “First mobile phone  sidewalks in China”, probably to share them on social media sites. Many  cell phone users engrossed in messaging or tweeting didn’t even notice  the signs. Mobile phone addiction is rampant in China, as it is  worldwide. According to one recent survey by zhaopin.com, a recruitment  site, 80 per cent of the 10,000 white collar workers it polled admitted  "severe addiction" to their phones. In the US too, injuries due to  distracted walking are rising fast, with 1,506 recorded in US emergency  rooms in 2010, up from 256 in 2005. <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-D8OmNQNsisc/VBlr2ZeBUJI/AAAAAAAA7Vk/ly_LXEakRNk/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-3%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9pPBxFsS_hk/VBlr5cfMxgI/AAAAAAAA7Vs/7DILL2JCaWA/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LFee6wMXbSQ/VBlr9TV_DaI/AAAAAAAA7V0/IODRxSG4QJE/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Lnz9djm2L9U/VBlsBEifAHI/AAAAAAAA7V8/_Z7Hs0y09h0/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-5%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-dlTjoUwC6xo/VBlsEdnkd-I/AAAAAAAA7WE/VxeM5PgXolM/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-6%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vzMXgnFGLRw/VBlsHsbZw_I/AAAAAAAA7WM/Vf0w8iygofU/cellphone-sidewalk-chongqing-1%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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