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And that line of irregular, seemingly-bumpy bricks is for accessibility for actual blind people.
In metro (subway-ish transport) stations over here, there is a line with differently textured tiles, which are also painted yellow.
They feel different to step on even when wearing shoes, so it would presumably help blind people know when they are stepping outside the walkable area.
I love it when accessibility features like this are embedded into the environment in a manner that's functionally invisible to most people. So much design expertise goes into our built environment that most of us aren't at all aware of.
The 99% invisible podcast comes to mind — they look at things like this (it's not specifically about accessibility, but rather design more generally)