>>>Right now my wife is getting over a broken shoulder but she can't go for a walk round the local park because of the number of badly trained "he's not usually like that " dogs that are being taken for a walk by their clueless owners.
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>Fair enough. Stay away from walkways beside water or she'll meet charming cyclists who treat the footpath as their own speed circuit. My relative dying of cancer had to stop his seaside walks after road maggots almost collected him a number of times because he couldn't leap aside as they seemed to expect.

Case in point

http://road.cc/content/news/172209-swansea-strava-users-told-cut-speed-shared-use-paths

no excuse for this really.