(14 Nov 2023, 7:12 am)idiot wrote They shouldn't be blocking the pavement completely...
They weren't but normally I would walk pavement - off pavement, across entrance to bus depot - back on pavement. It was around the entrance to the bus depot and just off the main road where the buses / strikers were. The only way I could cross that entrance was to walk into the middle of the road and then pass in front of a (slow) moving bus and around some strikers. Otherwise I would have been standing in the middle of moving traffic (or stuck on the pavement for goodness knows how long as there were a number of buses waiting to exit onto the main road). The main body of strikers were stood on the pavement across the road from the main depot.