Originally Posted by
DangerousDanR
You have got to be kidding me! Thanks to the wonders of a TBI my hearing is a mess. I should not walk on the MUP? Maybe the solution is that everyone needs to use common courtesy?
We really can't know from external appearances whether pedestrians are hearing impaired, and even if we announce, we need to allow sufficient space between us on the pass.
I can see when people are wearing head phones and the vast majority I've seen on paths handle it very sensibly by sticking to the right side of the path. I can only guess that that's probably true of hearing impaired people generally, but of course that's not something I can observe.
I have seen people on busy Boston paths wearing signs saying "deaf", but I don't think anyone should be required to do that.