Originally Posted by
CliffordK
As far as pedestrians, I ride wherever they are not.
The argument for pedestrians on the right is it allows bicycles to match their pace until conditions allow safe passing.
The argument for pedestrians on the left is that they're facing whatever comes at them (except the wrong-way cyclists).
At night, pedestrians are often hard to spot.
Minneapolis has posted signs on trails to reinforce all trail users should stay to the right... but some people can't read. Likewise, we have signed that faster trail-users should announce passes, that rarely happens.
While on my bike, the person on foot always has the right-of-way. Once in a while, they make it very difficult to yield the right of way, but I do it.