Poll: Walking on the road without a horse

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Having met so many people on the road I take to the yard walking on the wrong side of the raod (often with prams or little ones!) I was wondering how many people know what side of the road they should walk on (without a horse in tow)

ETA I appreciate you may have to change side depending on blind corners etc but in the main what side of the road should you walk on
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Towards most of the time, but with on certain sections of our road - either a tight, switchback bend with no verge or a short section next to a field full of sheep and I prefer the dog not to see them....
 
I know its wrong, but I walk the same way as the traffic. It makes it easier for cars to wait behind to pass you, you can hear anything mental coming so you can jump to the side (you don't actually need to see it), and if something is going to flatten me I'd actually rather not see it happening if it is too late to do anything about it!
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all ways walk towards traffic unless its a really tight bend then I cross over to pass then cross back

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Same here!
 
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I know its wrong, but I walk the same way as the traffic. It makes it easier for cars to wait behind to pass you, you can hear anything mental coming so you can jump to the side (you don't actually need to see it), and if something is going to flatten me I'd actually rather not see it happening if it is too late to do anything about it!
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You expect cars to WAIT to pass you? Good Lord - if you have the room to "jump to the side if you hear anything mental coming" surely you have the room to have the sense to get out of the way if there is ANYTHING coming. Round here you wouldn't survive a hundred yards before you were flattened by something not exceeding the speed limit who expected you to get out of the way - and we live in a rural area.
 
So do people actually think if they aren't in a motorized vehicle, they can't use the roads without getting run over?
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The police need telling if people feel like this because none of the country roads round here have pavements and people do walk, run, cycle and ride down them without jumping into hedges every time a car passes. If drivers aren't respecting other road users, they belong in prison.
 
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ALWAYS walk towards the traffic (coming towards u) it drives me nuts seeing folk walking on the wrong side of the road

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I agree - it is a matter of common sense to make sure that you can see cars as quickly and easily as drivers see you. I do accept though that occasionally it is more sensible to walk on the other side just to get round a blind bend though!
 
Could somebody explain the bling bend thing to me please? Why do you cross over? Surelyeither a car in front or a car behind isn't going to see you? I realise I am missing something here; I just don't know what!
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I don't walk on country roads much, but when I do I imagine I would do the same as on a horse: speed up and get the heck around the corner and onto a straight bit as fast as is safely possible!
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HI Naturally, It does actually make a difference. If you are walking around a sharp right hand bend, strictly speaking you should of course be on the right hand side, but you can't actually see far round the bend - meaning the cars only have a short period in which to see you too. If you walk on the left around the bend only, you actually have a longer field of view, as do the drivers so it is actually slightly safer. Speeding up is good too!!
 
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ALWAYS walk towards the traffic (coming towards u) it drives me nuts seeing folk walking on the wrong side of the road

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I agree - it is a matter of common sense to make sure that you can see cars as quickly and easily as drivers see you. I do accept though that occasionally it is more sensible to walk on the other side just to get round a blind bend though!

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yeh i meant to add tht on the end lol silly me!!
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Could somebody explain the bling bend thing to me please? Why do you cross over? Surelyeither a car in front or a car behind isn't going to see you? I realise I am missing something here; I just don't know what!
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On a blind bend a car coming toward you would be sitting as close to the verge as possible (incase it met another car on the bend) they would not be able to see you (blind bend
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) so you should cross and walk with traffic. The traffic then behind you would see you as you walked into the bend and know to slow down and hopefully not try to pass as you walk round.

Seems most people that done the poll know the right side to walk on, worries me that over half the people I see walking on the road don't! Maybe I should roll my wondow down and tell them
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Well, it works in reverse for me (obviously!) but I still know you should walk against the traffic (except for the blind bends thing, which tbh, I do when riding around here too).

I live on the Camino de Santiago and how more pilgrims aren't splatted I'll never know - except we know they will be all over the roads between May and October and drive accordingly. The ones that drive me mad are the couples/groups who walk on BOTH sides of the road, opposite each other or in the middle of the road and split to both sides when a car comes.
 
We live in a lane which used to be a through road and now becomes a footpath through to the estate. It is the norm for the estate people to walk anywhere they like in the road, dogs off lead, children on bikes and trikes anywhere but next to ther parents and when they see a car they all scarper to the verge BUT the road isn't wide enough to pass people on BOTH verges at the same time so cars have to wait till they've walked past.
 
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