Pavement travelling direction

[Plough Man]

Now may be the time to recommend guidance for walkers and runners who used the pavements.

My suggestion would be to only use the pavement for one direction of travel. For various safety reasons, the most appropriate would be to travel in the opposite direction to the on-coming traffic in the nearside lane.

Having a designated direction will eliminate encounters and the need to continually create a "social distance" with on-coming pedestrians.

[KidKruger]

It's funny ploughman, I was thinking what would a thread aimed at discussing and setting new rules for park use look like. Clean sheet of paper, based on what we know now, based on how people are behaving now, what would the rules be / how would they vary from what's currently allowed or required ?

Same thing with pavements and other non-park spaces, what would we set as the rules - which is I guess what you're proposing. I think it's natural to observe behaviours and (if one concludes they are unsatisfactory) be caused to consider alternate arrangements to address the shortfalls we witness.

Your suggestion for pavements is sound, as are most rules in force, but the alignment of everyone's behaviour is unfortunately the Achille's heel - regardless of which space we're talking about 1