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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry man, this is a you thing. You do not get right of way because you're faster. If you are running on a trail or sidewalk or something, and you come up on someone moving slowly, walking a dog, taking up the whole sidewalk, and you can't get around them, then YOU need to slow down or fully stop and wait for them to proceed. They have just as much of a right to the sidewalk as you do and the solution is right there in front of you: Stop or slow down. It's not like they're blocking the whole trail taking a nap for 30 mins. Stop, say excuse me, and get around them as you're able. Then you can keep running. If your workout is too precious for that, then go run on a track somewhere. [/quote]

So it’s ok for a pedestrian to take up the whole sidewalk? Other pedestrians have to slow down or stop so the slower pedestrian doesn’t have to move to one side of the sidewalk? Do slower people have the right to the whole sidewalk? Why?

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I walk for exercise. If I come up behind someone walking slower, yes I have to slow down until it's possible to pass. How is this a real question?

You can ask them to move. You can be annoyed. But you still have to stop running. Just like if your car comes up on another car parked in the road, you have to stop and not just plow into them. [/quote]

As another person who walks for exercise, I only partially agree. If I'm on a narrow sidewalk and I encounter someone who is going slow because they are elderly, disabled, or they have a small child, I have no problem slowing up and figuring out how to go around them. I think that's just good manners.

OP is talking about something else. They are talking about a person who is perfectly capable of sharing space on the sidewalk but is just being an oblivious idiot. It's not even dog specific. A few times on walks I've come across movers who have extended ramps across the sidewalk that are impossible to walk, so in order to get around you actually have to cross the street. This is very rude IMO, and if you do this you should have to put up warning signs, or find another way to load the truck that doesn't block the entire sidewalk. I've also encountered people who stretch car charging cords acrosee the sidewalk to there house and I hate that too. They actually sell materials that enable you to safely charge your car from the street (longer cords and these mats that go over them so that people can walk across them easily) so there's no excuse there. People who let their dogs on long leases and block the sidewalk when they could just shorten the leash and pay attention are being equally entitled and lazy. This is fundamentally different from slowing down to pass someone who simply cannot walk faster or may be blocking the sidewalk through no fault of their own.[/quote]

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