[blparent] sidewalks

[Amanda Winkler]

I know your frustration. Where I live we live on a very busy street and the 
sidewalk is next to the street. You have to contend with mailboxes (metal 
and sharp corners), phone poles, light poles, fire hydrants, skateboarders, 
bicyclists (adults and children), abandoned shopping carts, and cars 
sticking out of there driveways. Oh, one more thing, (the evilest of all) 
guide wires.  All just within 2 blocks.  I did notice you did forget the 
cart storage area, concrete barriers, and  vending machines (soda, propane, 
toys (marry-go-rounds and cars), and water).  Did I forget anything, LOL. 
Sometimes you just wonder where can people walk?

Amanda

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 6:39 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] sidewalks

> Walking  down the side walk in front of Walmart Gab and I counted 11 carts
> parked on the walk and four cars with their noses across the walk. You are
> right, if the bikers had commond sense and moved when a blind person came
> upon them, but to tell us to get off so they can pass, sheesh!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 5:16 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] sidewalks
>
> I guess I'd rather have bicyclists on the sidewalk than weaving in and out
> of traffic, which is dangerous for everybody, and there aren't always bike
> paths.  But I do believe some bicyclists are rude and don't watch out for
> pedestrians, and not putting a cart back in the corral is rude, too.  It
> seems that being inconsiderate has become okay to some people.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 4:02 PM
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> Subject: [blparent] sidewalks
>
>> Just curious, do you guys believe that pedestrians should walk on
>> sidewalks
>> and bikes should either stay on the road oor on bike paths?  I get so
>> upset
>> when I am walking on a sidewalk and there are so many obsticles.  Like in
>> front of Walmart or other stores, grocery cars dot the walk or cars park
>> so
>> far forward that their bumpers hog the walk or bicyclists use it as their
>> own. Gerrrrr!
>>
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