Anyone who gets annoyed by slow walkers, buggies and other pavement obstructions might want to make a beeline to Liverpool.

A fast track pedestrian lane has been added to the city's pavements at the Liverpool One shopping complex, allowing speedier people to bypass slowcoaches hogging the street.

See also: That Cell Phone Lane for Texting Pedestrians Is in a Chinese Theme Park

The lanes are actually an advert as they lead directly into the catalogue retailers Argos, which created them. But still, the news will come as a relief to the huge numbers of shoppers who say crowds are one of their biggest bugbears.

In a poll of 1,505 adults conducted by Opinion Matters for Argos, 31% of respondents said pavement hoggers were their worst high street nightmare, and 27% cited dawdling pedestrians as their top issue.

The lane is only a trial, but independent retail expert Alastair Moore said nearly 30 million Brits say they'd like one on their own high street.

Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire /Associated Press

Special-case lanes have been trialled before. In China, a theme park introduced a lane for walking while texting, and another in which using phones was banned.

In Chongqing, China, there are cell phone walking lanes. #wow pic.twitter.com/PLNKWAJq9v — Dan Pontefract (@dpontefract) September 14, 2014

In Washington, D.C., meanwhile, National Geographic introduced temporary signage to separate text-walkers as part of their Mind Over Masses science series. Smartphone laboratory Mlab installed similar lanes in Antwerp, Belgium in June.

Mlab, a new smartphone laboratory located in Antwerp, installed similar lanes. Image: Rex Features via AP Images/Associated Press

The lane in Liverpool is sadly only around until Sunday.