PEDESTRIAN crossings will leave the green man lit up for at least an extra second – because Brits have become too unfit to cross the road.
Obese and overweight people will have 20 per cent extra time to walk across 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 1.2 metres a second.
But an increasing number of blobby Brits mean a rising number of people are too unfit to cross the road before the green man fades – risking serious accidents at junctions across the country.
New measures will boost the length of the green figure’s appearance to 7.3 seconds – an average speed of 1m per second.