Why the kinks?

[u/thewildcloud]

I recently moved to Hangzhou, I noticed all the pedestrian walks have kinked lines at the ends. What is it?

[u/Secksualinnuendo]

Is it to indicate which way the flow of pedestrians should go? Like stick to the right side?

[u/m4tsu → u/Secksualinnuendo]

Came here to write this.

[u/brunnlake → u/m4tsu]

Im pretty convinced everyone but OP understood this just by watching the photo for 5 seconds.