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In article <iQdJQDAJmF50Ew1j@quizlady.demon.co.uk>, Corinne Brooks
<corinne@quizlady.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Clearly a serious, pressing and urgent problem, to which the answer is shoe-tax.