From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 On Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:49:09 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: 
  
 > In message <1072eqe$2c33g$16@dont-email.me>, at 14:56:14 on Thu, 7 Aug 
 > 2025, Jethro_uk  remarked: 
 > 
 >>> In other news, yesterday I encountered a family of about six walking 
 >>> along the tarmac on the side of the very busy A10 between Ely and 
 >>> Cambridge, with their backs to the traffic. Staring at their phones, 
 >>> obviously. 
 >> 
 >>"Round are way" there are a couple of routes where to cross a road you 
 >>need to take one dropped kerb (if you can) and then proceed between 100 
 >>and 400 metres to get to one on the other side of the road. This entails 
 >>being in the road. And hoping that the dropped kerb at the destination 
 >>isn't blocked. 
 > 
 > That's all very well, but I'm trying to discuss a chap who thinks he 
 > should drive on the roadway the whole distance, regardless of any 
 > provision on the pavement. 
  
 I wonder what the situation would be if a pedestrian (old style, on 
 foot :) ) were to walk in the road blocking traffic, when there is a 
 perfectly serviceable pavement for them ? 
  
 The legal situation. The reality would eventually be some sort of 
 encounter with Darwin. 
  
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