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It's a bit funny, but not really. If I pushing my daughter in a stroller, and they blocked the way like that when it's already difficult to walk in the snow I would literally kick one to the curb. I'm tired of the sidewalk being used as a dumping ground for every possible thing.

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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Wheelchairs, in particular, require at least a 3-foot-wide clear path, and many wheelchair users wouldn't be able to just "kick one to the curb."

It's not quite clear to me if that would be an issue on this particular sidewalk, but it does seem like an oversight in the design of such systems.

I don't mind, maybe my language was unnecessarily aggressive, and things can be funny without looking at the big picture. But overall, I have zero patience left for anything that blocks my way on the sidewalk out of sheer convenience for them. The attitude that a sidewalk can be used for whatever just because people are flexible needs to change because it's not true. Plenty examples above.

Absolutely. Sidewalks were never meant for meandering robots. At the very least we should tax those stupid things as they consume a public resource.

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