It was definitely at least somewhat of a problem pre-bike path removal. I remember being annoyed at the annoyance of bikers because the pedestrian path was full of vendors and they HAD to use the bike path for large chunks of the bridge. You can’t be mad at pedestrians for walking where they can at that point.

You don’t really need full length novels to do that, though. Most of my readings in university English classes were short stories.

I do agree with you on English classes being important.