was thinking about this the other day we give way to everyone, horseists give way to pedestrians.
Whereas one would have thought common sense would prevail: walkers being the easiest to stop and stand aside would be first to give way, cyclists next easiest to move aside then horses biggest and hardest to yield to others so they get priority.
Or you could go with the danger thing, horses have most momentum so should give way to everyone, cyclists next, (then runners I guess) walkers top of the pile as they do the least damage.
Either way we should be in the middle but we’re lowest of the low, probably due to timeline as avdave says, doesn’t seem sensible really.
but if everyone is considerate we tend to rub along ok.
<edit>If you’re faced with a line of walkers/runners coming towards you completelyt blocking a wide trail just stop on the trail, they can then choose to walk around you or have some shouty stand off while you calmly give way to the walkers, I wouldn’t let them “force” you off the trail. Bit tricky if they are walking in the same direction and they’re being obstructive as technically they don’t have to move aside for you and so you could come to some stupid impasse caused by them being nobs. edit2 actually had this with a horse rider a few weeks ago, was a tricky one.