The Pedestrian Horn

In a city such as London, where the most sensible mode of transport is often the human foot; it is extremely frustrating that often the polluting, and impractical car has the right of way. This is particularly annoying in heavily pedestrianised areas such as Soho where streets are narrow and preceed the invention of cars. Automobiles can only travel at about 5kms/h (and this is an actual fact) and they are greatly outnumbered by pedestrians.

Yet the drivers are cocky, arrogant and think they own the road, block crossings, run reds, don't stop at zebra crossings, and disregard the fact that they are in warm, toasty cars with music playing while the rest of us are stuck on a corner in the pissing rain and getting cold.

Worst of all, they honk their horns at you even if they are in the wrong and there's nothing we, as pedestrians can do.

So I propose the invention of the PEDESTRIAN HORN. This device will be loud, and possibly worn around the neck or fit easily into a handbag or pocket. This way, we too can express our annoyance at traffic or even those really annoyingly, able bodied, slow people that walk as if they're on a picnic not realising that they are in the middle of a buzzling city and I AM IN A HURRY.