text: OK - perhaps we still want it not be bicycle =yes - but I'd be enthusiastic about removing bicycle=no at least. 
  
  My preference on the difference between footway and path has always been to regard a footway as something which you'd be happy to be routed onto in navigating a city - and a path to be anything else. I don't think there's ever been any agreement about this and indeed you'll see several photos from this area on the page I wrote proposing a pathtype measure (which clearly isn't right because it's not been taken up) to get around the issues this creates: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/pathtype(alternative) 