We walk our dogs on a local multi-use trial for hikers/bikes/horses and the bikers come out of nowhere and make little effort to slow, mostly if we are really alert we have just enough time to pull our dogs aside and make way for the spandex bunch who have the attitude that they have the right of way, they don't! Before Paul tells me how biased I am, I've bought five bikes from local shops over the last decade but have mostly given up riding due to the azzwipes that fancy it in my city and they dangers of riding on the road. As far as I know, they rules for biking on multi-use trails suggest that they must ride under control and yield to horses and walkers.
The trails I often ride on have signs that say cyclists must yield to pedestrians and horses. That's common sense to me.
When I walk on multi-use paths, I do some things that I wish were standard practices. I walk facing the direction of travel of bicyclists. Most pedestrians don't. When I walk my dog, I keep it toward my edge of the path. Most pedestrians let their dogs walk on the bicyclist side of them. Well, with their backs to the cyclist, the cyclist now has to contend with an oblivious pedestrian and their dog.
