Originally Posted by
jakub.ner
Actually you are quite wrong. This is exactly where a pedestrian belongs.
Yes, it's where a pedestrian belongs. And yet it's also exactly where drivers often don't look. Quite a conundrum, isn't it?
What I said was exactly correct.
Originally Posted by dougmc
People look where they expect traffic. They generally don't look often or at all in places that should not have traffic.
This is one reason why going the wrong way on the sidewalk is dangerous -- even if it's legal, drivers (and cyclists, for that matter) don't expect traffic to come from that direction..
You'll note that the passage you quoted said nothing of legal or illegal -- it talked about dangerous.
Fortunately, pedestrians usually have a low rate of speed, and even joggers are slow compared to somebody on a bicycle, so problems for people on foot are rare. Pedestrians can easily yield to cars even at the last second (I'm not saying that they legally have to, only that they can if they need to to avoid a collision) where it isn't quite so easy for cyclists.