80% of the gothamist readers and staff should be in the "tourist" lane, due to I highly doubt your birth certificates say "New York" or even "New Jersey" on them

Are you all retarded? This was a prank by a NY-based improv group. It stayed there a few days before NYDOT removed it...

Link: http://improveverywhere.com/2010/06/08/the-tourist-lane/

"DUH GUISE I HAVE A LITTLE MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOTU SOME FRIVOLOUS SHIT, SO CLEARLY IM MORE "IN THE KNOW" AND THAT MEANS EVERYONE ELSE IS RETARDED CUZ YOU DON'T KNOW 'BOUT SOME FRIVOLOUS SHIT LIKE I DO"

bitches don't know about my frivolity

It's funny -- so many of you New Yorkers think that you walk fast and stride purposely. Yet, when I am in the "untouristy" parts of town, I find myself struggling to get where I'm going because so damn many of you actually stumble around like retarded zombies instead of walking like normal people.

gotta say, dogbert is pretty right. i wanted to fucking kill this group of chinese women and their male friend. not only did they just stop to bullshit (on 36th and 8th.. nothing tourist about it) but when he said his goodbye to her and left, the fucking woman 1.) cut me off to get back into her group 2.) decided to just stand there.

dont fucking cut people off and then walk slower. dont walk out of stores into people and walk slow. don't be a fucking moron, and use your head. does it happen? rarely.

Let's meet and talk about it, Pal.

Sorry, but fat American's who have stuffed themselves with greed and the fast food should diet so that there is more space on the sidewalk. Ooh wait New Yorkers aren't fat I forgot they're stressed and snort enormous amounts of coke!

Sorry for the generalization, but think about it, it's pure arrogance.

If you don't want to rush and bump into people every day you should live on a farm or a small town.

Love to all and take life easy! Stress is the number one cause of heart failure!

The grocer's apostrophe is quite poignant when used in "fat American's."

brilliant.

We are all tourists.

well done! about time someone did this

I just walk down canal street with both fists straight out

But for finance, celebrity culture and tourism, this city would be another Philadelphia -- if even that. Fake-tough New Yorkers need to get over themselves.

YAY! Now us tourists can pretend to be real NEW YORKERS! First thing I will do is get my Orange-bag-carrying Grandma Jenny to take a photo of me standing in the New Yorkers lane. Maybe I'll pose like a meth junkie, it will be so STREET!

What a great memento! Thanks, side walk painter guy!

Tourists won't notice this. We will be too busy looking at the sites. Only NY'ers walk around their city looking at the sidewalk, too afraid to look anyone else in the eye!

i look at the sidewalk because there's typically vomit and gum and dogshit, and/or random food parts, and/or garbage on it, and i'm not into stepping into any of that. it's got nothing to do with your eyes, though i'm sure your eyes are fucking fantastic and looking at strangers right in the eyes is just amazing beyond belief.

Man, this Banksy stuff is getting ridiculous.

+1

There already is a "stroller lane". It's called the street.

Great concept but NYers don't like to follow rules here's a few blatant and unspoken rules that the majority of us don't like to really follow:

-Passengers moving into the middle of the subway car

-Moving aside to let passengers off the subway first

-Driving on Bus Lanes

-J WALKING

-Cyclist not following traffic rules

I guess before we complain about tourist why don't we check ourselves first...