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[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to [email protected]. We've been expecting you.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No Posts.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Now it's you too!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

51 subscribers

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

We were just talking about this yesterday. What good timing.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This indicates bad design.

Some places, like college campuses, will avoid putting any paths in at all in the beginning, wait a few weeks, and then pave based off where people are already going.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

There's a story that urban engineers in... Sweden(?) look at the ground after fresh snow to judge where to install walking pavement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Not always, the gradient might not be good for wheelchairs, and could cost more to level when there is a full budget.

Granted this does not appear to be the case here. Desire paths will always exist, though, as the ingenuity of a subset of the many will always outweigh the few.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I loved the desirepaths subreddit. It's a shame it's, ya know, a subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Shortcut to help leave the UK faster

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There’s a lot of these in the UK, I can think of a bunch just in my own town. We seem to really dislike corners.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, corners are not very natural, and we were made to traverse in natural environments such as forests or grasslands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It looks like there's no walkway along that street anyway, so why go to the corner just to walk on grass anyway?

Edit: just noticed the whole thing is a walking path. Disregard.