Sidewalk Etiquette

[The Unknown Copywriter]

For the love of humanity, will people EVER learn to walk down the right...literally and figuratively...side of the sidewalk?

Probaby not, so forget I asked...

[Mike Cleaver]

This also is one of my pet peeves.
I usually yell at people, this is Canada.
We walk and drive on the right.
Even more frustrating: People who stop in the middle of the sidewalk to talk to each other and block the way.
They also stop at the top of stairs and escalators.

[Neumann Sennheiser]

This isn't going to work for you but I solved the issue by moving to a place with 1/3 less sidewalks and 1/200th the amount of people.
Less crime, I can actually leave stuff in my car and real estate is about a third of the Vancouver price.

Down-sides?

Too many Republicans/tea party nut-jobs.
Officious small town police force.
Red light cameras.
Way more guns! (and with concealed/carry permits you never know who's holding).
Decayed downtown core. No Yaletown here.
Lack of good restaurants (okay, so I save a little money there).
and...Rubes!..so many Rooooobs!!! It's like the carnival never leaves town.

[jon]

We walk and drive on the right.

Walking on the left is still on the lawbooks in Canada. It only applies to walking on a road without a sidewalk. The concept is a good one: on the left edge of a road, facing traffic so you can see it coming, rather than having it sneak up behind you.

Kids who have had that drilled into their heads in school are likely to walk on the left on a sidewalk. But, the shared bike/pedestrian paths we have here in Edmonton with a yellow line down the middle do tell you to walk on the right, even though "facing (bike) traffic" might make more sense. For bikes, though, the current system makes more sense as they can simply ride on the right and pass on the left.

This isn't going to work for you but I solved the issue by moving to a place with 1/3 less sidewalks and 1/200th the amount of people.
Less crime

What happened to the naval base?

[Neumann Sennheiser]

This isn't going to work for you but I solved the issue by moving to a place with 1/3 less sidewalks and 1/200th the amount of people.
Less crime

What happened to the naval base?

I'm looking at it outside my window right now.
It doesn't apply so much to the city issues as its a separate enclave, kind of like The Vatican in Rome.
As a foreign national, I can't even walk through the gate without special permission; really, anyone must have clearance, American citizen or not, a war on ya know.
The two kinds of people there are either non-military citizen workers, family guys who have passed all background checks and active military sailors, marines and soldiers, also generally non- low-life types.
The tweakers, crackheads and other problems are too lazy to walk up the steep hills from downtown to my neighborhood.

[Dan Sys]

I guess the fine folks in "sidewalk free" Surrey have no idea what you guys are talking about.

[J Kendrick]

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgMnlGOw7wM&feature=fvsr