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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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… especially if the neighborhood is filled with little shits with too many electrified toys.
EDIT: Okay, I'm convinced. Regular bikes would actually be a sensible cause here. Let me be a curmudgeon though.
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People walking between the bus stop (outside the picture) and the building (on the right) don’t like taking the long route around this huge green circle. It was pretty obvious that this would happen sooner or later.
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Luckily people have found a shortcut
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Don't know what weirdos would go there on the very same route every time but here we are
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33301417
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Art by https://chazhutton.com/
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It's not just a desire path but also a shortcut that saves you 7km. They are trying to block it but it's coming back on the side.
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Update, how it was going...
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How it's going now... They blocked the previous path and guess what? There is now another desire path, under the tree.
Update 2025-05-29: They are installing a wired fence. Going lengths to make people's life more difficult!
Someone knocked off the pole that was on this section, the one in the photo is a replacement. Someone also bent the same section of the fence.
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This has got to be the widest desire path I've ever seen, but I'm excited to know if anyone has seen bigger. To my knowledge it's been here for at least 15 years.
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Bicycle/pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge in New York City. The two trenches are worn entirely by bicycle tire traffic. These are not car tracks as the width slightly varies later. The city has done zero effort to clean the bridge paths after the snow and almost zero effort to clean protected street bicycle paths. The intended use for this path is for pedestrians to be on the right half (you can see the middle dividing white line if you look for it), and for bicyclists to use the left two quarters. You can notice the yellow line intended to divide the two directions of bicycle traffic, with about 2ft per direction. The actual spacing resulting from natural use is on display and apparently way different.
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