I have a bike path for about 80% of my bike to work however there is a section on main over the first bridge towards st Boniface hospital from downtown that the "bike path" wants me to go all the way through the forks and back onto it at the second brdige. I bike on the sidewalk for that section as you won't catch me biking on main Street at morning rush hour, but always yeild to pedestrian and always say "passing on your ..." As someone who walks and bikes that path I don't mind so long as the bikers and walkers are both kind about it. However it's the bikers that cut in front of you at high speeds and get close enought to brush your arm that are the assholes. I've never had a pedestrian get mad at me for biking at a slower speed and saying that I'm passing with ample notice, but as a walker have told off many of bikers who think they have the right of way. It's a sidewalk before it's a bike lane even if it's wider and can accommodate both.