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One trick that works really rather well is to tell them just to move. Yelling at them doesn't work because they can't really hear you, but if you signal with your hand as you would if you were driving a car saying 'go ahead', they tend to cross without dancing the funky chicken in the middle of the road. I do that a lot at zebra crossings, where people will wait until I have come to a complete stop to cross unless I signal them across with my hand, which is obv. a bit irritating, especially if I'm going up hill and have some decent momentum going. Nodding the head exaggeratedly in the appropriate direction also works, though is less immediately understood.