I commute on a bike path every day. I see dozens of others doing the same. I get passed by the same people on my way to work and on the way home. I've bumped into friends I haven't seen in a while, too. It's a friendly, enjoyable way to commute. A bike path creates bike commuters like no other thing can.

Even before, when I rode my bike on the bike path by the beach, the one that often is too choked with people to be of much use (and yet I still used it), I still saw dozens of other commuters every day. The same ones every day, often wearing McDonalds or Vons uniforms, so I know they were commuters. The "serious" cyclists rode on the parallel street and I'd see the same ones of them every day, too. Some of them were probably commuters (had a backpack or pannier) and others of them were probably getting in a morning workout before work.

Why insult people for using a facility provided for the purpose they are using it for? It's their choice. Cyclists would do better to argue for their being a choice rather than imposing one single choice on everyone. And I don't believe that cyclists who live somewhere where they see less than a dozen other cycle commuters each day should have any say in "how things ought to be" for anybody, unless they are asking for a change to the status quo.