Having a bell on your cycle helps a lot with this - just give it a ring a few times before overtaking people on a combined cycle/foot path and they will generally (although not always) try and do the sensible thing.
In my own experience I was somewhat surprised to find that using a bell actually works a lot better than saying "Excuse me please".
Also, some pedestrians will do intentionally stupid things when encountering a cyclist on a cycle path, but fortunately them seem pretty rare and far less common than cyclists who do stupid things.
In my own experience I was somewhat surprised to find that using a bell actually works a lot better than saying "Excuse me please".
Also, some pedestrians will do intentionally stupid things when encountering a cyclist on a cycle path, but fortunately them seem pretty rare and far less common than cyclists who do stupid things.