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Letter: Please follow proper pathway etiquette

Dear editor, I'd like to address the topic of pathway etiquette. To the kind people of Airdrie, I ask that group conversations held on local pathways please be moved off the path onto an adjacent green space.
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Dear editor,

I'd like to address the topic of pathway etiquette. To the kind people of Airdrie, I ask that group conversations held on local pathways please be moved off the path onto an adjacent green space.

I understand you are socially distancing from edge to edge, yet you, your dogs, and your children are blocking the path. I understand I look able-bodied and that I should easily be able to walk around you, but what you don’t see is a stability issue and an arthritis issue. Uneven ground can literally knock me over. Yet you tell me to walk around you.

Today’s current crisis has turned what used to be kind caring citizens into a "me" society. Think about it – would you block the highway for a conversation? Would you block Veterans Boulevard? No, you wouldn’t. You would honk, wave, and move on.

Pathways have scooters, bikes, walkers, runners, mums with strollers, and all of them yield. Chatters should move on. You can easily stand on the grass when conversing and do not need to impede a walkway.

Walkways equal movement, not blockades, and please don’t be rude if and when I walk through you, as you physically watched me walk along the path toward you. Please make room and share the walkways sidewalks and bike paths.

Charlie Flamm

Reunion


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