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Re "Walk Like a Fish" (Sunday Review, Dec. 16): Alexandra Horowitz's article about how native New Yorkers (primarily Manhattanites) avoid pedestrian congestion by obeying several "rules" of the road doesn't mention the most basic rule, which is also the most often violated.
The most important rule is that pedestrians in New York walk forward on the right side of the sidewalk, not the left. It is surprising how frequently this rule is ignored by both New Yorkers and tourists alike. (Perhaps some Britons can be excused.)
The problem, of course, is compounded by those on cellphones who also walk on the wrong side.
GEORGE L. JUROW
New York, Dec. 16, 2012
To the Editor:
I didn't see anything in Alexandra Horowitz's discussion of how humans "walk like fish" on crowded sidewalks that addressed a contemporary issue I doubt that fish have to deal with: humans seriously involved with their electronic devices.
I live in Midtown, and for me the problem is not so much holiday tourists (as it seems to be for Ms. Horowitz) but people listening to and looking at electronic devices.
I find it difficult to avoid bumping into them (Rule 1 of "fish traffic management"); to follow them (Rule 2); and frankly resent the suggestion of Rule 3 that I should slow down to their often-pokey pace.
Times like these call for the adoption of special "human traffic management" rules — rules that would permit us to bump into electronic miscreants, not follow them, pass them and, when necessary, step on them.
ALICE BRAY
New York, Dec. 17, 2012
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