I had a notion in January or so, when I had the day off and my bike was at the vet having its back paw mended, to walk along the canal at 5.30 and return on the bike, to see what it was like. At the time there had been some discussion here of the ego-stroking bright light problem.
About 200m in, after being alternately blinded by badgerkillingly powerful LEDs and then proto-flinching as completely blackbody joggers would only appear from the gloom about one metre away, I gave up on the notion of returning via the canal.
I was wearing a white cycling jacket(with almost no reflective trim on the front, I admit), and from the grand total of two peds I'd met who wore or carried anything light I knew I'd be very visible to the badgerkillers, but for the other 5% of the scale, with lights so poor I barely saw them before the joggers, I turned on my own light and shone it at my feet so it was obvious that I wasn't on a bike.
This actually helped a little with the dazzling, since I wasn't constantly opening and shutting my irises, but still, I don't intend to repeat the experience.
With regard to the Broomhouse path, I prefer pedestrians to stay on the bike half since it gives a layman's excuse for me riding on the ped half over the rumblestrips. The actual reason I do it, even when both halves are deserted, is apparently not obvious to the tramworks people, and by extension Joe Ped/Driver.