A popular tourist destination in Chongqing, a major city in southwest China, has devoted a portion of its pavement for mobile phone users too entranced by the activity on their screens to avoid other pedestrians.
在重慶市的一個(gè)景區(qū)里，有一條專(zhuān)供手機(jī)愛(ài)好者的人行道，在這上面步行，可以供低頭族們頭也不抬地一直盯著手機(jī)屏幕而不用擔(dān)心與其他行人相撞。

Another section of the pavement bans phone users.
這條被一分為二的人行道的另半邊則禁止行人使用手機(jī)。

In July, National Geographic commissioned a similar stretch of pavement in Washington DC, in a brief experiment testing human behaviour.
今年7月，美國(guó)國(guó)家地理欄目曾因一項(xiàng)驗(yàn)證人類(lèi)行為的實(shí)驗(yàn)，在美國(guó)華盛頓的一條人行道上做過(guò)相同的劃分。

Chongqing's new sidewalk attracted ridicule on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
重慶的這條新人行道在中國(guó)的微博上引發(fā)了大家的各種吐槽。

"Am I supposed to jump to the other side of the path when I get an incoming phone call?" one user questioned.
“如果我手機(jī)響了，我要接電話(huà)是不是得跳到另半邊才能接呢？”一位網(wǎng)友吐槽說(shuō)。

"Maybe they can even build one traffic lane especially for drunk drivers in the future," sniffed another.
“也許以后還可以專(zhuān)門(mén)為喝酒的司機(jī)建一條專(zhuān)用道。”另一位網(wǎng)友吐槽道。

Indeed, the ploy seems to have created a new problem: street congestion, as hordes of people stop in their tracks to snap photos of the special sidewalk.
的確，這種做法可能會(huì)導(dǎo)致另一個(gè)新問(wèn)題—道路擁擠。為什么呢？因?yàn)闀?huì)有一大群行人停在路上對(duì)著這條特殊的人行道拍照哪。