London’s canal walkways now have “duck lanes”

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Running or cycling down the Regents Canal in central London is one of the city’s great pleasures. The water’s edge is lined with narrowboats. Cafés and galleries occupy once-derelict warehouses and factories, serving delicious coffee at tiny tables. The busy roads of the City, roaring a couple miles away, seem very distant on this long stretch of towpath, grass, and old-fashioned locks.
But the way is treacherous.

Runners, often with their senses blunted by headphones, charge along the path, weaving between slower pedestrians. Cyclists race past, dinging indignant bells. And ducks waddle along, oblivious to it all.

It is chaos.

But one charity says it has come up with a solution: duck lanes. The Canal & River Trust has painted a white line demarcating areas to be used by the wildfowl with a stencilled silhouette of a duck. The lanes were painted by towpath ranger Dick Vincent at four locations in Little Venice, in Kings Cross, and in east London.

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