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.

 

[Happy Trails]

As a once teenage and now septuagenarian rebel I still walk on the wild side.

 

[bPeteb]

Groups of people walking right across Brisbane's river walk do my head in. I just stop. I've had a couple of shocked people walk into me. So many incredibly rude people and the number is increasing.

 

[serfty]

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 been using Qantas' Sydney Domestic terminal since 1994. Back then the QP was the area for what is now gate 16. In the latter 90's the terminal was redeveloped in time for the Olympics.

The only travelator I can recall is the one you refer to between around gate 5 and gate 7. ISTR it was removed a year or three ago.

MEL domestic did have a couple. One was around for maybe less than a year - when it was working it moved PAX outbound between around Gate 2 and gate 6. The other was installed when the gate 20's pier was built. It moved PAX outbound between the main Qantas domestic area and the new pier. It lasted some years, before being removed some time prior to COVID.

 

[Pushka]

Groups of people walking right across Brisbane's river walk do my head in. I just stop. I've had a couple of shocked people walk into me. So many incredibly rude people and the number is increasing.

See. I would do the same but am I as bad as they are given I know what's about to happen but let it happen? It's a bit of a paradox for me.

 

[bPeteb]

See. I would do the same but am I as bad as they are given I know what's about to happen but let it happen? It's a bit of a paradox for me.

I usually have nowhere to go unless I jump in the river! Then add the complexity of people on electric scooters and food driver people on bikes who just ride at one crazy speed. It's a mess along there.

 

[Pushka]

I usually have nowhere to go unless I jump in the river! Then add the complexity of people on electric scooters and food driver people on bikes who just ride at one crazy speed. It's a mess along there.

I remember in the dark days of March - April 2020 and beyond when the world stopped. We were living on the foreshore at one of Adelaide's most popular beaches for walking along the promenade. People. Dogs. E-scooters. Bikes. E-bikes all share it. So we also had a place near on the River Murray. We were going to escape there for Easter but no, the Government said it wasn't safe/fair to travel from city to country due to Covid. So we did the right thing and stayed out. Well, that promenade was so packed all Easter with humanity that we felt it wasn't even safe to walk along our own street! I think this was about the time the Qantas baggage handlers had the outbreak so who knew who had what. So we got stuck overlooking everyone else doing their thing.

(Turned out our next door neighbour there worked for Qantas and her brother was a baggage handler. We were talking to her over the fence and then she dropped the news her brother was really unwell with Covid . March 2020. One of the first in Oz to get it. His mate almost died from it )

 

[justinbrett]

So it's best to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and to assume that they have a good reason not to walk, unless we know them well enough to be absolutely certain that's not the case.

I have been using Qantas' Sydney Domestic terminal since 1994. Back then the QP was the area for what is now gate 16. In the latter 90's the terminal was redeveloped in time for the Olympics.

The only travelator I can recall is the one you refer to between around gate 5 and gate 7. ISTR it was removed a year or three ago.

MEL domestic did have a couple. One was around for maybe less than a year - when it was working it moved PAX outbound between around Gate 2 and gate 6. The other was installed when the gate 20's pier was built. It moved PAX outbound between the main Qantas domestic area and the new pier. It lasted some years, before being removed some time prior to COVID.

There’s still a travellator in between T3 and T2 isn’t there? On the way to the train station?