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If you’re asking that question you’re probably already at lower risk. Just think of scammers calling up your grandparents or something like that; they pretend to be Microsoft, ask for the user’s credentials, attempt to sign in, then ask for the user’s one time passcode. You can get more elaborate setups but that’s the gist.

Huh? I literally just sent you two links about roadside walkways. Australia’s one is under the header “Footpaths in road reservations”, while technically it doesn’t always need to contain a road, it does include the road and area around it. Here’s a definition from a random Aus council I found with a quick search:

A road reserve is the public land outside your property boundary and generally includes the nature strip or verge, roadside drains or kerbing, footpath and roadway.

The UK one literally gives that advice beside a diagram of a footway beside a road while clearly marking the 2m recommendation on the diagram.

Personally I’m the same size wherever I’m walking, but I’d still prefer the extra space when I’m around cars rather than on a safe path, I’m not even sure what point you were trying to make?

a 36” sidewalk

So… About the minimum for a single person to walk with little leeway, normally in a safe indoor area with no car traffic?

36" is the absolute bare minimum required walkway space in the US by ADA to technically be wheelchair compliant in that a single wheelchair user might be able to use it, roughly half the minimum 1.8m clear width recommended by Australia’s Department of Transport, and less than half the 2m minimum unobstructed walkway space recommended for pedestrians in low-traffic areas by the UK’s department for transport. This is undeniably too narrow.

That road looks wide enough for about 4 cars, it’s not a “waste” to surrender some of that to make it slightly less hostile to pedestrians.

We’ll need an after picture too, I assume they’re going to replace that concrete tightrope with one?