WEIGHT FOR GREEN MAN
Daily Record|July 24, 2023
Pedestrian light change to help unfit Brits cross road
DAN WARBURTON
WEIGHT FOR GREEN MAN

THE green man will stay lit for at least an extra second because Brits have become too unfit to cross the road.

Overweight pedestrians will have 20 per cent more time to cross roads, new Department for Transport guidelines have revealed.

Walkers currently have 6.1 seconds to cross both lanes of a road, at an average speed of four feet a second.

This story is from the July 24, 2023 edition of Daily Record.

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