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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The best solution would be to loudly scream, “Hey mister! I didn’t hear a bell!” every time someone passes without ringing the bell.

Slowly, over time, you’ll enter into their psyche. The next time, or time after that, or maybe it’s not for months but… eventually, they’ll instinctively reach for that bell… and they’ll ring it. You will have created the waves of change from one small pebble and, at worst, you’re probably only going to get punched in the face once, maybe twice a year if you keep doing it. A small price, but probably deserved anyway. Just think of all the better manners you will have instilled upon the population.

That or, y’know, they could just build a cycle track so walkers/runners have one and cyclists have one. Or make the track extra, extra wide.

That would literally be easier and probably more cost effective than trying to change the behaviour of people operating under no training and limited “rules.”

Nah, I'll stick to bitching about it online