What side to walk on?

[serfty]

T2 is closer to the station entrance - I don't think there has been one there.
The one they have is comically short - possibly leaving room for another, but they'd rather build more car park$.

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Actually, now you refresh my memory with that - back on 2000 there were two sets of travelators between the station entrance and Qantas Domestic.

One has been completely removed and that's why that remaining is so short.

 

[JohnK]

Go to Japan?

I've never visited Japan (and to be honest have no desire to visit) but my experience with Japanese is their standards are quite high and on par if not better than Western countries.

I'll leave the rest alone but I've been in Thailand for 2 weeks now and if the tourists here reflect the standards of their home countries then my statement is totally true.

@Forg for my part you need to have compassion for fellow human beings and treat them with respect and queuing is a major part of that respect.

 

[Forg]

@Forg for my part you need to have compassion for fellow human beings and treat them with respect and queuing is a major part of that respect.

Actually … I think this is a bit harsh on those parts of the world (most of them) where staying alive requires you to stomp all over your nearby human, where they can’t stomp all over you first of course. It’s why I’m not that excited to visit the third world, I don’t want to observe people clawing at each other’s throats just to stay alive.

Queuing civilly is a … let’s call it a White Man Problem. Most of the world has been brought-up to scream & yell & trample, just in order to survive.

 

[anat0l]

I've never visited Japan (and to be honest have no desire to visit) but my experience with Japanese is their standards are quite high and on par if not better than Western countries.

Better, no question (at least when it comes to queueing, but also in many other areas related to civility and order).


My father, since I was young, encouraged me to walk on the opposite side of the road, i.e. the side facing oncoming traffic. So if we drive on the left lane, he would encourage me to walk on the footpath on the right. His reasoning? You have a better chance of dodging a car coming towards you than one that is behind you.


Another interesting dilemma: in a number of large shopping malls (e.g. Westfields), you often have large hallways often with kiosk shops in the middle, which effectively divides the hallway into two. What is the correct protocol for walking here: each entire half walks in only one direction (to switch directions, cross the "kiosk line" to the other half), or each half has two "lanes" or "files", with one for each direction (to switch directions, just hop into the adjacent lane/file)?

 

[Quickstatus]

I don’t want to observe people clawing at each other’s throats just to stay alive.

Mmm, I've seen abject poverty but never that.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Another interesting dilemma: in a number of large shopping malls (e.g. Westfields), you often have large hallways often with kiosk shops in the middle, which effectively divides the hallway into two. What is the correct protocol for walking here: each entire half walks in only one direction (to switch directions, cross the "kiosk line" to the other half), or each half has two "lanes" or "files", with one for each direction (to switch directions, just hop into the adjacent lane/file)?

Or C: Online shopping.

 

[Quickstatus]

I wouldn't worry too much about correct side to walk on.
Most people are on their Mobile phone to know or care

 

[drron]

Better, no question (at least when it comes to queueing, but also in many other areas related to civility and order).


My father, since I was young, encouraged me to walk on the opposite side of the road, i.e. the side facing oncoming traffic. So if we drive on the left lane, he would encourage me to walk on the footpath on the right. His reasoning? You have a better chance of dodging a car coming towards you than one that is behind you.


Another interesting dilemma: in a number of large shopping malls (e.g. Westfields), you often have large hallways often with kiosk shops in the middle, which effectively divides the hallway into two. What is the correct protocol for walking here: each entire half walks in only one direction (to switch directions, cross the "kiosk line" to the other half), or each half has two "lanes" or "files", with one for each direction (to switch directions, just hop into the adjacent lane/file)?

But in places where there is enough room on the footpath to walk either right or left then here it should be walk on the left whichever way you may be walking. If you are on your left on one side of the road you will not be near the road. The people on your right though coming towards you are walking towards the cars coming. Same whichever side of the road you are walking on.

 

[DC3]

But in places where there is enough room on the footpath to walk either right or left then here it should be walk on the left whichever way you may be walking. If you are on your left on one side of the road you will not be near the road. The people on your right though coming towards you are walking towards the cars coming. Same whichever side of the road you are walking on.

Their left or your left?

 

[JohnK]

But in places where there is enough room on the footpath to walk either right or left then here it should be walk on the left whichever way you may be walking. If you are on your left on one side of the road you will not be near the road. The people on your right though coming towards you are walking towards the cars coming. Same whichever side of the road you are walking on.

What about places with no footpaths or jagged footpaths?

Bangkok, Pattaya, coughet, Hua hin, Chiang Mai all the same. As @anat0l mentions I walk on the side of the road with traffic coming towards me. I do want to want to walk where traffic is coming behind me.

 

[DC3]

What about places with no footpaths or jagged footpaths?

Bangkok, Pattaya, coughet, Hua hin, Chiang Mai all the same. As @anat0l mentions I walk on the side of the road with traffic coming towards me. I do want to want to walk where traffic is coming behind me.

Good point

 

[justinbrett]

I've never visited Japan (and to be honest have no desire to visit) but my experience with Japanese is their standards are quite high and on par if not better than Western countries.

I'll leave the rest alone but I've been in Thailand for 2 weeks now and if the tourists here reflect the standards of their home countries then my statement is totally true.

@Forg for my part you need to have compassion for fellow human beings and treat them with respect and queuing is a major part of that respect.

I think it’s really important not to use the words western and developed interchangeably.

There are plenty of developed countries that are not culturally western (eg Japan), and quite a few culturally western countries that are less developed.