> hopefully most of them know where they're going and aren't scrambling I don’t get the sense from “scramble” that the pedestrians would not know where they ar

> hopefully most of them know where they're going and aren't scrambling I don’t get the sense from “scramble” that the pedestrians would not know where they are going. Scramble can mean a sudden act of motion, like “they scrambled the jets” or “once we have stopped we all scrambled off the coach”. There is an alternative meaning where it is used to signify that something is intentionally mixed up or even encrypted, such as “scrambled egg” or “can’t intercept their plans anymore, they scrambled the signal”. Maybe that is the meaning you are thinking about?