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It doesn't take much...
(lemmy.world)
… 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.
They design sidewalks the way they should be designing roads: slow, deliberately requiring attention, and inconvenient.
Every time I see a cut through like that, I know that the planner failed at their job, because they failed to design for humans of all ages and abilities.
Civil engineering should be an art that follows life in many cases, like the sidewalk design, and not force a design that is inconvenient or inefficient.
What "ability" is required to follow a sidewalk with a slight curve in it?
The ability to give a fuck about someone else's idea of aesthetics when you prefer function... You know, the basic cause of desire paths.
I guess you don't have people in wheelchairs or walkers where you live.
Sidewalks shouldn't be designed as obstacle courses.
People are going to take the shortest route. And they know this it happens everywhere.