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Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
My college, University of Maryland College Park, prided itself on not paving their walkways until desire paths were created. However, even though the buildings and walking configurations kept evolving, the paved walkways were set in stone. No more than a year after I listened to the orientation speech about the school doing this, I saw fences be put up next to Jimenez Hall to prevent people from taking the most direct route. People continued to step over or under the fence.
Foundation is a great citybuilder if you're a fan of desire paths
Near my university there was a great desire path because the bike lane went around a patch of grass for no reason. Their ultimate response was to let the company that was digging up a place for a new hospital building dump all of their excess dirt on the grass patch.
So they created a big dirt mountain that covered the entire grass patch and now the only choice left was to follow the bike lane. In the meantime they removed most of the dirt mountain but the desire path hasn't recovered yet since there's now a lot of overgrown plants.
I really hope it returns soon because it saved me the full 5 seconds I needed to get to my classes in time.
Desire paths
I love the repeated panels, almost like the path is checking to see if anyone looking before it shifts.
The last one frustrates me, but I also totally get it.
I totally see these in real life because the path angle doesn't align with the incoming foot traffic like the crosswalk in this example.
Is good. Much approve.
