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Originally Posted by SwampCreature
I think there's a larger problem than just the front page of the Daily Sun. This whole thing about which side pedestrians should be on has bugged me in this thread and another on bicycling. I was wondering what the officials rules are, if any. Maybe a printed document like the infamous roundabout one.
Well, I located online a copy of the much anticipated S.H.A.R.E. poster:
http://www.districtgov.org/projects/SHAREposter.pdf
If I was to gather anything from the poster about pedestrians, it is that they should keep right. Not much to go on, but those runners do seem to be on the right side, and the dog walkers seem to be more on the right than on the left. Unfortunately the dog walkers picture seems to encourage a rather bad behavior: pretty much blocking the entire width of the path!
So if the Daily Sun picture needs correcting, so does the vaunted S.H.A.R.E. poster! Who pays for the reprinting? 
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I am not aware of any official rules concerning pedestrian traffic on multi modal paths. However, common sense would rule that one should walk facing oncoming traffic. (Also, my first grade teacher taught us to walk facing on coming traffic and her word was rule.)
I witnessed a jogger, after dark and with dark clothing, on the right side of the street in the "cart" lane. Based on the quality of some of the golf cart lights it would seem he was taking a big risk.