One-way right direction, two ways wrong

During the triumphant morning runs over the Williamsburg Bridge the walk-path is remotely retarded. Usually you walk on the right hand side of the road (unless you’re in London, but that’s so retarded we shouldn’t even dwell into that) and people you meet walk on your left side.

Here, on the mayhem side of the world, things are slightly different. Moving forward, as a walker, you walk on the left side of the road and bikes on the right. Meaning you face bikes heading your direction all the time (slightly scary since a bridge tends to tilt downhill on one side, and Wburg is no exception, and bikes move fast).

This is all very clear if you look on the pavement though, the visual silhouette of “person walking forward ” is on the left hand side and “bike going forward” is on the right, and though I can admit it, I had trouble with this in the beginning. Left/right/left/right… GHA. The pressure was immense but after a few tours you get a hang of it. The bridge is also divided into two different walk paths, one on each side of the road. The right one, the one I use is bigger, I call it the main one and is now shut down for maintenance of some kind = everyone uses the left side, the smaller, more narrow side and, beware now, the one without the same signing on the pavement as the main one.

This is all extremely confusing. For everyone, very much including me. Some, like moi, tend to follow the instructions we’ve learnt from the main one; and walk on the left while some who’s blindfoldingly reading the visuals on the streets too literally is using the right hand side. And if I used the word mayhem before allow me to recycle it here instead, cause its all-complete ballistic mayhem. And on this even slimmer path things will turn messy. Maybe bloodbath.

So. I guess that was it. Another anecdote from New York without a purpose. Carry on, as you were now.