Sidewalk Congestion Rivals Traffic Jams

On the sidewalks of New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Miami, and just about every major metropolitan city there are walkers, runners, standing and gazing in awe tourist, squatters tying walking shoes, readers and texters, groups creeping at a snails pace, impaired staggers, the occasional toddler stumbling. Then there are some that’s just sitting, or laying whatever their preference or state of mind demands at the moment.

Hundreds of different people traveling the same real estate without the aid of signs and traffic control. It can get messy frustrating, and at times downright frustrating. Road rage has nothing on some incidents of sidewalk rage when the to many bumps, grinds, stepped on heels, creeping groups blocking any forward progress reaches the boiling point.

Here is a wonderful article published in 2002 By Marc Santora that give a delightful yet beneficial quick course on navigating city sidewalks a little bearable for all. If you live in or will be visiting or moving to a major metropolitan city you will find this a good read………

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4D71739F935A25754C0A9649C8B63