Originally Posted by
sumgy
Yawn
Do you expect motor vehicles to beep as they pass you while you are on the footpath too?
Maybe runners should call out as they jog past?
You aware that "almost ran into me" equates to "passed me without incident except in my own mind"
Sorry, these ongoing whinings from people about other people "endangering" them are just getting incredibly boring.
Uh, who's the one who hates people? I'm a bicyclist who rarely gets passed on the MUP, and I've been appalled by some of the unannounced close passing I've witnessed. On a MUP, you're riding several times faster than a jogger can run and passing quite a bit closer than a car on the road, so those are both stupid false equivalents.
And no, almost ran into me is not just in the person's mind. I've seen a lot of near-misses caused by this behavior, none of it involving me, and it really terrorizes people, especially when it involves, as it often does, children.
You might want to learn how to use a bell properly or start announcing by voice. I might see one person a year jump like you describe when I pass, and they're almost always wearing headphones.