I walk a lot and understand the topic very well. It's my experience people generally are walking on the left when on a path that has motorized traffic and foot traffic (so correctly walking to face oncoming vehicles as if they were on a road back home). And generally they walk on the right when the path does not allow motorized vehicles (so treating it like a sidewalk back home, even though they encounter a periodic bike). I typically walk as I describe, because it's what I see generally. And every once in a while I have to change sides to avoid someone. It's really no hardship. I wave and say a cheerful "hello".
The only way we would ever get people to walk the same direction all the time would be to paint arrows or post signs on the paths showing which way pedestrians should face on either side of the road. So for now, my solution is a cheerful "hello".
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