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In article <tf5CfNBlCy40EwNi@bham-assist.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
<amabbett@bham-assist.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>My colleagues in the Transportation Department have asked me to point
>out that the ramp gets _extremely_ busy, especially on Saturdays, before
>Christmas and at sale time.
>
>The system is in place to improve pedestrian flow and public safety,
>particularly for vulnerable pedestrians - the elderly, the young and
>people with a disability.
>
But what happens when you are wlking on the side away from the shops and
you have to cross the flow to get to them. Should you get to the end of
the ramp and turn around and come back? Also you have a newspaper seller
and a Big Issue seller standing in the way of people trying to move up
the ramp. People with pushchairs tend to walk at half speed on the ramp
especially when it is busy so everytone gets held up. My solution is
that i never shop in the City Centre on Saturdays - but it can still be
busy at other times. I tend to dodge around people - even if I am on the
wrong side of the line when I do so. I also rarely use that MacDonalds
and try to use a different Cashpoint from Abbey National. Hence those
businesses on the ramp don't get my business if I have to walk on the
wrong side of the line and cross the flow of people to get to them.
>
>The alternative would be to have no system,

Like it used to be - and I never saw an accident then.
> and I might then be replying
>to accusations that we had been negligent in not foreseeing an accident
>and doing something to prevent it.
>
>>I tend to walk with the flow anyway, but when the announcement starts
>>I always make a point of walking on the wrong side.
>
>I trust you will reconsider, in the light of the above.

-- 
Corinne Brooks

http://www.quizlady.demon.co.uk