Desire Paths

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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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Desire path for straight sidewalk (infosec.pub)

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Desire path for straight sidewalk

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

I'll never understand why city planners do that. Like, it's clear you could have definitely had a little bit narrower sidewalk going straight through, but instead they just went around it.

If it's worried about spacing, they could just make it on both sides like a smaller path to the left of the pole and then the normal path curving around for like wheelchair access.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Probably some idiotic law the designer had to follow

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