Getting Your Swerve on (My Nerves)

24 Aug 2005

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If there's one thing you can rely on pedestrians to do, it's to not walk a straight line. Just try to pass one from behind and see.

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William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Springtime in Manhattan

Tourists in Times Square Blocking the sidewalk to gape At an ambulance

08 Jun 2015

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By: William Shunn

Haiku

4 Across

senior citizens holding hands like preschoolers blocking the sidewalk

24 Sep 2013

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By: William Shunn

Manhattan

Faster, Pedestrian! Kill! Kill!

What's that you say, Reuters? New York's pedestrians are the eighth fastest in the world? Are you sure? Pedestrians in Singapore were crowned the world's fastest movers, walking 30 percent faster than they did in the early 1990s... Copenhagen and Madrid were the fastest

02 May 2007

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By: William Shunn

Pedestrians

Laws of Traffic Dynamics #43

Stationary pedestrians will tend to cluster on a public sidewalk at its narrowest point.

29 Sep 2006

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1 Min

By: William Shunn

Getting Your Swerve on (My Nerves)

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Laws of Traffic Dynamics #43

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