For not really wanting to walk on the road with a pushchair?

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I'm not really sure because technically I don't have right of way . I don't think .

Anyway , there are two primary schools side by side . To manage traffic they start/finish 15 minutes apart . DDs school is the one with the later times , so when I'm walking and I get to the street the schools are on , I'm walking right into all the parents and kids walking away from the school , on a street with one pavement . It's a right squeeze , and people just pile along the street and I always have to come off the pavement and walk along the road . Which is also narrow so sometimes cars have to crawl along behind me .

Sometimes I'll see a break in the crowd and bump back on , but the next group of people just walk right into me again and I have to bump off again . Sometimes I have to stand and wait on a car to let me off the pavement .

Some people do move into single file for me but there's never a day I don't have go onto the road at least once .

I've considered alternate routes but they would triple my journey time at the very least .

So AIBU ? I know I don't have any more right to use the pavement than any of them but surely they realise that they can go into single file to make space , I can't do anything to narrow ds pushchair .

I would always move out of the way for a pushchair. Incredible that some people expect you to move your pushchair onto the road.

I would just stay where you are, people will soon move once their ankles are rammed accidentally knocked by buggy wheels. I find it amazing how people won't move but I hold my own with a tandem double, no way I'm bumping up and down kerbs when it's much easier for someone to move slightly!

just stand there and let them go around you then push forward again they will move you have far too many manners for your area

Can you not arrive slightly earlier so you have time to dawdle down the pavement? If you don't move off the pavement then the others are going to have to go single file or move onto the road themselves.
These other pavement users sound a bit ignorant.

Or is the pavement narrow because of ignorant car drivers parked with two wheels up on the kerb? That annoys me.

Walk on the inside of the path so you have to cut across for walking in the road. They will walk round you. I'd move before expecting to put a pushchair in the road. But I have a double so people tend to avoid me anyway

A bicycle bell might help? Ding ding ding.

And yes the people should part around you. Stand yer ground.

use the pushchair as a ram, close your eyes, shout 'scusme and RUN for it.

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but claim your space

I have exactly the same problem OP, school leaving at the time I need to walk the opposite way. People just keep walking then stop and stare as if they expected my pram to dematerialise!

You must stand your ground, and just keep going in a straight line. They WILL move!!!

Just keep walking, at a quick pace, and they'll soon move.

Thanks for the support I always get so stressed out walking down that bit of the road . I know it sounds daft but I always feel like I shouldn't be there

Ive tried walking on the inside of the pavement but there's a lamppost and a bin that I've got stuck behind and everyone just carries on walking and leaves me standing there unable to get by until there's a gap in the crowd .

You need to be more assertive and take your place on the pavement.

Even subconsciously, if people see you either stopping or getting off the pavement and in to the road, they will just keep going without moving into single file.

If they get the vibe from you that you're not going to move, then they'll react to that and work around you.

Ditto what WooWoo says. You need to look people in the eye so that they've clocked you've got a pushchair and then keep moving, slowly.

You have as much right as anyone else to be there.

How rude.

Try just standing still as a group approaches. They'll have to go round you. Granted, it might make your journey a lot longer than it should be .

And I agree with WooWoo about vibes. As you get more confident, try projecting the impression that you will not move. See what happens.

My bugbear is, when I'm walking on my own, people walking two or three abreast not getting into single file, so I have to walk into the road. I try to project the same impression that I'm talking about above. I think people are sometimes in a little world of their own as they wander along the pavement or just inconsiderate and ill-mannered

Get a double buggy, they will steer clear then!

Gladiator-style spikes out of the wheels? Too far?

Stick your ground OP - buggy vs people = buggy wins!