If I can’t walk down the sidewalk without being delayed by slack-jawed yokels, then the tourists have already won.

I go a step further…if they’re talking too loud, I tell them to shut their pie hole as I’m knocking them down.

Joke, right? OMG, more fodder to be used by politicians to micro-manage American life. Big Brother.

I am an American living in China. Try the rage thing here, in car, on foot or bike and it will cost you, (as a foreigner), big time!

This is the dumbest topic I have EVER seen discussed. The fast walkers here are the epitome of what is known as “rude New York”.

Now that I know it’s an issue, I’m gonna gently stroll and perhaps lightly tap dance down the sidewalk when I see you fast walkers approaching.

All you people complaining about tourists, perhaps we should tell them to take their cash to another city?! Personally, I think people who have a need to bully and push others around with their “aggressive walking” are very small and insecure. I have a disability and walk with forearm crutches. Some of us have difficulty walking. Did you ever think of that, I’ll walk at the pace that’s been forced on me. The next time you see someone walking at a pace unacceptable to you, think, maybe that person has difficulty, instead of being a selfish arrogant turd. It’s not all about you.

It’s a sideWALK, not a sideSTAND! I don’t think I need to elaborate…

I’m a homeless person always asking for spare change or a cigarette. I love the crowds in NYC. I get about $5 per hour and more during the holidays.

If you want to discuss rude A-holes crowding New York City; how about the people who get on the subways wtih fully-loaded backpacks that look better suited for a 6-week expedition of Everestt? And then the people who are riding already crowded subway cars who refuse to “Move in” at new stops, so you have empty areas of space towards the middle of cars with overly jammed areas of people near the doors. Just remember, “being a New Yorker is never a license to behave like an a-hole.” ‘Nuff said.

I wish city walkers would treat sidewalks like what they are – roadways for two-legged vehicles. If someone was driving and decided to suddenly hit the brakes, would they be surprised if they got rear-ended by the car behind them? If someone decided to drive on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic, would they be surprised if they had a head-on collision? If someone came barreling out of a sidestreet into traffic would they be surprised if they got side-swiped? No – but how many times have I almost crashed into someone who decided to suddenly plant themselves in the middle of the sidewalk, or had someone walk right into me rather than (gasp) have to momentarily step behind the person they’re walking with, or had to swerve as someone came darting out of a doorway right into my path? Seriously folks, most of the sidewalks of NYC are a means of transportation. It’s fine if you’re out for a stroll or walking your dog or pushing a stroller – but just remember that you’re on an active roadway. Be considerate, stay to the right, leave room to pass, and you’ll never have to worry about inciting “sidewalk rage”.

To that commentor from Ohio:
Think of the streets of NY as a farm irrigation system.
If you need to increase the water going onto a field, and you can’t add additional pipes to the system, the only other way to do it is to get a bigger, stronger pump and turn up the water pressure to force more water though the system.
NY City streets are so crowded with people, that we have to more faster than average or nothing would move.
All those people squeezing through a limited space creates additional pressure.
If you want a leasurely stroll try Central Park.
No one will hurry you along there (as long as you’re not walking on the jogging track or roadways).

I work in NYC also and walk from 50th down to the PA Bus Terminal every day. What gets me are the tourists that seem to walk backwards –diagonally– and back into you as you are walking a straight line…AND THEN THEY GIVE YOU A DIRTY LOOK!!!! You have to walk the sidewalks like a cabbie drives the street to get around all the mayhem.

Howdy folks,

Why not just move out here to Ohio. If two people pass each other down one of our town’s three streets at the same time, its a virtual traffic jam!

Of course we don’t have the advantages of the big city but after reading this article and many others about traffic congestion I am beginning to wonder if small town USA really is so horrible.

maybe Bloomie should establish walking lanes,,,,those on the fast track, moderate walkers and then the window shoppers. then you can have smoking vs non smoking lanes,

Lovely…….this weekend will be my first visit to the big apple. Please people mellow out—–or should I just leave my camera at home?

A lot of the non US citizens are cuasing the sidewalk problems being rude

I mostly drive, since i do it for a living. When I do have to walk, like to pick up some street meat for lunch, I f@rt on people in my way. Smell that dirty water dog through your SARS mask Xi Xou Dong!

The article didn’t mention smokers. Man, that has got to be the most disturbing of all.
You’re in a hurry, and suddenly your pristine lungs run smack into a wall of nicotine. “Hack hack…cough cough!” That will tick off anybody. You stop, and try to
fan the damned smoke away from you, speed up and get ahead of him, her. Keep
at it, Mayor Mike!

It’s rude to walk 2, 3, even 4 abreast. Rude to eander all over the sidewalk while cell-phoning. People should be aware of others around them. Hire sidewalk traffic agents.Give tickets.to saunters.

I am a very fast walker (6’3″ long stride). If I see slowness ahead, I simply walk in the street, no need for rage.

Choose the wider avenues to walk up/down. For instance, Fifth avenue is twice as wide as Madison. I walk up Fifth avenue even though my office is on Madison.

Y’all need to take a stroll on over to Shenzhen. New York will seem like a charming town.

warning to people walking on sidewalks. i will knock you down if you are not walking the same speed i am. take this as a warning. do not call the police or get mad at me when you get knocked down by me. because i have warned you. if you cant walk the same speed as me. do not go out and stay home.. or just move to a deserted island and walk slowly there, dont waste my time.

You can bet that the pharmaceutical companies will come out with a pill for “Intermittent Explosive Disorder” (IED).

I’m an aggresive walker and it drives me crazy when people ahead of me are strolling. You have nowhere to go? Get out of my way. I do. It’s invariably a tourist or worse, a group of them. Even if New Yorkers walk slowly or have to stop they know better than to do so in the middle of the street at the risk of being run down. They know to move to the “slow lanes” – by the buildings or near the curb. Tourists should be taught this lesson. Walking fast is a part of New York. You don’t like it? You can leave.