How to proceed when pedestrians occupy the dedicated bike path? I go to work every day on my bike. In my town there are only few bike roads but luckily one is about half of my way to job, but a lot of pedestrians believe they are bikes and occupy the bike path. At this point there are several scenarios. Sometimes they hear/see me and move away, this is not ok because they don't have the right to be there in first place, but it looks like they understand that.
But there are other cases when people ignore me or even try to get run over.
Those scenarios are really scary for me. I usually just avoid them which is actually make me the offender because I have to invade the sidewalk.
Or like this morning: a woman was on my side of the road and was completely ignoring my bell, I could not pass her on her left side as there were another bike coming, and just when I was passing her for some reason she thought that it will be the perfect moment to move away from the bike path. Lucky for her she saw me and just end up with a scare.
Should I lecture people about how ignoring roads can be unhealthy? Should I pass them at full speed leaving a nice scare?
A bike + driver hitting someone it is a few broken bones at best. How should I treat a pedestrian completely ignoring bike path, bikes and bikers, or even trying to cross my path?
One more thing, bike paths are not optional if there is one; if you are on  a bike you must use the bike path.
Edit: I live in Spain. Here each town hall writes their own rules for bikes use in their territory. In mine, pedestrians can´t remain on a bike path. Bike riders also are enforced to ride on a bike path if there is one.
Whatever you do, don't be a jerk.  Noone likes a cyclist who reinforces the bad stereotypes.
Do Share The Road  Even though you're in the right, there's no need to be offensive.
Personally I find bells lazy, most cyclists have a good loud voice and a &quot;Hi there, just gonna pass on your left&quot; is far nicer than &quot;ringring&quot;
Absolutely never try to scare someone with speed or proximity.  Think how bad you'd look if it went wrong and you couldn't stop or swerve in time.  You would be at fault even though they were in the wrong.
Conversation and lecturing has no effect, and is more likely to make people defensive and negative toward you and all cyclists.  A rhetorical question like &quot;Where's your bike?&quot; is about as much as you could say safely, and even that much might get you into a physical altercation.
My solution is to anticipate the up-coming blockage, look behind over the shoulder at driver of oncoming traffic, speed up and take the road lane.   Give the obstruction a wide berth.   Making eye contact with the following driver helps them anticipate your action.  The driver can see exactly what you can see and won't get mad because you telegraphed the intent by looking.
Of course this assumes you can ride fast enough to &quot;merge&quot; with the traffic for a moment.