am I allowed my lane on the bike path?

[shootingstar]

Would agree with others that as a cyclist, you should expect your own lane in a bike path/multi-purpose path, but don't expect it to be granted to you.

There are some multi-purpose paths in our city that I studiously avoid during certain hours of the day. However such paths have served me excellently ...early in the morning. I don't diss such paths, because for me, some paths if geograhically designed in an ideal manner, one can avoid over 30 different 4-way/traffic light intersections on the road..(this is very true in City of Toronto where I was commuting from suburbs into downtown).

I would say 75% of time, I use the bell...and give advance warning. Other times it's verbally..."on your left". Usually the latter is useful for joggers and other folks who look more athletic in their activity/attire.

Some of our paths are heavily promoted ...for tourists or they are near rental bike stores/rollerblade shops. It is abit disconcerting particularily not the tourist cyclists wobbling...but the tourist rollerbladers, of whom, you can see, some folks are very unsteady on their rollerbladers.

[jobob]

This is why I dislike multiuse paths, and why I think they're often considerably more dangerous than riding on the road.