Mizter T wrote:
BBC News "Bid to make London walk-friendly"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6032969.stm

"More than 44% of pedestrians use the Tube map to navigate around
London, according to a study by TfL [...]


The most interesting line in this story for me is that there are "A
myriad of confusing pedestrian signs". Admittedly some pedestrian signs
can be a bit confusing but except around the most tourist-y areas it is
hard to think of places where there are a myriad of pedestrian signs of
any sort.

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Each day a man watched a donkey walk past a high wood fence with one
plank removed. Each day he saw a nose, then the ears, then the neck,
forequarters, back and finally the tail. He pondered this for a time
and eventually declared. “I understand now. The nose causes the tail”