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I find it a little bit dangerous, to find a person in a zone that you don’t expect a person to be in. Granted it’s usually the door zone, but I still have to suddenly look behind me to swerve around safely.
But yeah, I wasn’t being rhetorical, I genuinely wonder why people do it. I have thought about the uneven pavement issue but I’ve seen many instances where that doesn’t look to be the case. But what do I know.
hangedup-
suddenly look behind me to swerve around safely
There is an element of it sounds like you aren't looking very far ahead in that case. Suddenly stepping out is different from walking in the road for a while. But I'm playing devil's advocate a bit.
I'll often walk in the gutter on the right hand side of the road where I can see oncoming vehicles if the pavement is crowded. That means stepping back onto the pavement to let a filtering bicycle past.
When I'm walking on the left hand side of the road on a narrow pavement I get a bit annoyed with pedestrians who don't step into the road when it is congested. I don't want to do it because I can't see behind me well. On Tuesday night I was walking west along the south side of Oxford Street and crossed over to the north side so I could better use the gutter and get to John Lewis faster.
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I find it a little bit dangerous, to find a person in a zone that you don’t expect a person to be in.
At the risk of sounding a bit #cycletraining, might I recommend you read the highway code
jellybaby
branwen
Why not? With the exception of motorways it is allowed and pavements are frequently narrow, cluttered and uneven.