What side to walk on?

[JohnK]

Usually follow what everyone else is doing but I am more comfortable walking on the left. (Actually I lie. In Pattaya narrow streets I like walking on right side to see cars/motorbikes coming towards me.)

What a shamozzle at the Chiang Mai Sunday night markets last night. Groups of people walking everywhere. Some one left. Some on left. Some in middle and everyone constantly moving out of the way.

The one I hate the most is people walking side by side in narrow footpaths. I don't move out of the way. I stop in middle and let them walk around me.

 

[drron]

I have had a few instances of people wanting to walk on the incorrect side recently in Bangkok where it should be walk on the right. The Thais are now as bad as us and walk wherever they want to.
The best/.worst case was when I was walking into the Big C shops near the IC. They have normal steps up from the street or a long curving entry with low rise steps some distance apart. Suits me. But yesterday I was going up on the right side and a Chinese couple were coming down and cutting the corner coming straight at me. A wheeled bag in one hand and a phone in the other I called out, no response so I used my walking stick aimed towards the lower part of the bag. It went toppling. Had I not done that and the bag hit me I would have fallen on to the concrete. Not a risk I want not to take.

Their reaction was when I knew they were Chinese I don’t speak the language but can recognise it.

 

[Himeno]

The one I hate the most is people walking side by side in narrow footpaths. I don't move out of the way. I stop in middle and let them walk around me.

Yes. I hate the people who insist on walking next to each other across a path and thus block everyone else from moving past/around them.

Almost as bad as the people who wait 20 minutes for a bus to go a single stop down the road, less then a 5 minute walk.

 

[Townsend]

Ah, this is due to my inexperience. Really the only one I could recall clearly was Changi, and even their PR shots (because I Googled to check I hadn't misremembered) have people with trolleys using them. The escalators in T2 at Sydney have bollards, which is a shame because in some ways it would be amusing watching people trying to get a luggage trolley onto an escalator ...

Didn't one of Sydney's domestic terminals get travelators which you could use with trolleys? I'm thinking it was the QF one, but I can only find reliable photos of that faux-aircraft-fuselage one near the entry to the airside portion where the shops are. I could've sworn one of the domestic terminals had an extra wing added decades ago and got travelators to get passengers out to the furthest gates (maybe that happened & they've since been removed). I have vague recollections of thinking how cool the travelators were as a kid.

I had to walk the entire length of Qantas domestic terminal in Sydney today and I am disappointed to report that there was no travelators.