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Being hit by a bicycle doing 40-50 km/h is pretty serious. Doesn't happen that often, but a lot of cyclists are dicks when it comes to picking and choosing when they want to use the road and when they want to use the footpath.
Also pedestrians are zombies. It's common to ride along a dual use pathway with no one around and ample room for everyone and see pedestrians walking 4 abreast, or just single file but randomly snaking all over the place as they get a new high score on Candy Crush. If I ride my bike on a dual use pathway I try to give pedestrians as wide a berth as possible to account for unpredictable movement.
Also pedestrians are zombies. It's common to ride along a dual use pathway with no one around and ample room for everyone and see pedestrians walking 4 abreast, or just single file but randomly snaking all over the place as they get a new high score on Candy Crush. If I ride my bike on a dual use pathway I try to give pedestrians as wide a berth as possible to account for unpredictable movement.
I read somewhere some interesting and thought provoking takes on this relationship. When a cyclist breaks a rule he/she is lambasted and rightly so. But when motorists do it, for example on the phone texting, not indicating, breaking speed limit, the anti cyclist brigade smirk and shrug their shoulders.

