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In article <1992Oct27.234641.9305@netcom.com>, tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H.
Kunich) writes:
|>(Talk about widening sidewalks)
|>
|>The third law of pedestrianism states that no matter how wide the
|>sidewalk is, two pedestrians will always take up the entire pathway
|>and ignore anyone wishing to pass until such person wishing to pass]
|>has to resort to shouting obsenities.
|>

Just like the new bike path in the Boston area which runs from Lexington
down to the Alewife Subway station in Cambridge.  It's pretty nice, with
not too many road crossings and they've even put a dashed white line down
the middle to delineate the traffic lanes.  Of course, this doesn't prevent
clueless pedestrians from walking three and four abreast, chatting away, 
probably wondering why those pretty white lines are in the middle of the
path.  The other great thing is to have people walk on the left hand
side, completely ignorant of the fact that THEY are the main traffic
flow on a path and should therefore be on the right.

Fortunately not too many people have discovered the path yet.  It will
probably be bearable over the winter, but I'm not looking forward to
spring.  On the other hand, these annoyances are merely aggravating, the
annoyances on Mass Ave from Lexington to Cambridge can be fatal.

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David Yon
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