The authorities might usefully turn their attention to the regulation
of pedestrians in other ways. There is now no method among people walking along the pavements. Nobody knows whether to keep to the right or to the left. The result is an unnecessary slowness of movement on the pavements all over London. Up to about two years ago most of those who followed any method at all used to keep to the right. But then a local authority, by means of posters and announce- ments, tried to introduce the rule that everybody should keep to the left. This rule was not supported by higher authority and the result has been worse confusion than ever. Formerly those who kept to the right on principle at least felt that they had tradition on their side. Clearly the rule ought to be to keep to the left because the traffic on the road keeps to the left. Thus the pedestrian would face the oncoming traffic. This rule ought to be introduced quickly and insisted upon so clearly that to disregard it would be looked upon as a social offence. * * *
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