… 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.
I know a university campus (forget the name) let students build desire paths first while the site was under landscaping, and when they moved onto paving they actually paved the desire paths themselves. It created a funky aesthetic and comfortable spiderweb weaving through the grounds.
And then people still cut across parts?
All footpaths I made in skylines were triangular for this reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
EDIT: Ha, just noticed the topic I posted this under. I should pay more attention.
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?
I guess you don't have people in wheelchairs or walkers where you live.
Sidewalks shouldn't be designed as obstacle courses.
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.
People are going to take the shortest route. And they know this it happens everywhere.
The original path design is exceedingly stupid. Sidewalks are not a place for this kinda artistic pathing, they are a functional element of public infrastructure. Its barely even wide enough for a wheelchair. Put that kinda path in a park somewhere, not next to a road, then people wont make a shortcut to get past it.
Welcome to American suburbia; the sidewalk is basically meant to serve the purpose of a park path. The nearest shop of any kind whatsoever is 1.3km away, and if anything that's not considered that bad.
The shop is 1.3km away, but because of no road crossings or sidewalks it's actually a 5km trip without a car.
1.3 kilometers seems unusually close for an American suburb.
The nearest shop of any kind whatsoever is 1.3km away
I don't think that should be a relevant factor for the availability of proper sidewalks.
Wheelchair users who want to visit their neighbors should be grateful the pavers lie flat, not heaved up by tree roots. (And in fact the flat grass might be a smoother way around such obstacles, except when too muddy.) The grass exists for dogs to pee and poop on. Looks like owners have been decent about scooping, at least.
It's America, they are lucky there's a path at all.
If they had made it straight there would be a diagonal desire path going right instead, only solution is to concrete everything!
Just do both and make it a pretty triangle :)
Ah, a Desire Path. Love to see them!
Well yeah, thats the name of the community. But yes, i do love to see them, especially in response to stupid paving like this.
Well that's embarrassing. I totally missed the community, guess now I have to sub.
It takes special kind of delusional thinking to design a Y-shaped path in a place like this. What you need, is a triangle.
What an absolute novice you have shown yourself to be. The obvious solution here is a roundabout.
Yeah. Rookie mistake. Roundabouts are clearly the best solution. This is the way.
Why did they put roundabouts in the roundabout? No, seriously.
It's a "magic roundabout" meant to be able to combine the joining of several roads into one gigantic roundabouts within roundabouts. It doesn't work very well.
Near me there's a giant roundabout joining 6 roads together, 2 of them highways, and it works fine as one roundabout. You just enter the roundabout and exit at your exit, it's not complicated and it doesn't need to be.
Regular roundabouts can also do that.
Obviously not a criticism of your statement, but this thing shows up every five minutes and I've still yet to see a single justification for it's existence.
Truly, this is the height of human accomplishment.
And yet the best you could muster was the unfired clay being molded by an amateur having intercourse with a ghost! Clearly this desires to be a two leaf clover interchange.
The entire sidewalk down to the edge of the city I am in on one side of the main road is "wavy" in such a way that if you followed the sidewalk, it would take you 4 times as long to walk 2 blocks than it would if you were across the main road where the sidewalk is just straight. It's so fucking stupid.
Kinda sounds like you're misplacing your anger
Honestly, the desire path makes sense. The entitled shits are just generally not safe vehicle operators, though.
If it really bothers you, extend the garden and add landscape rocks. Grass is ugly no matter the state it is in
Grass is ugly no matter the state it is in
I think bamboo can be pretty though 🤷
Don't plant bamboo, it's like English ivy or Himalayan blackberry but worse.
We planted it in a containment barrier. It jumped the barrier and is almost impossible to remove.
Sure, terribly invasive though. And probably not up to code in whatever HOA hell this looks like lol
op be like "get off my lawn you little shits"
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Self aware wolf sighted 😄
I don't know why, but as soon as I saw the picture my brain said, "Oh, that's bicycles."
When you're going at high speed (particularly when you're a kid on a jacky bike that doesn't handle well) taking that weird turn is a recipe for either crashing into the bush or losing your balance.
Why risk it? Just take the grassy route.
That, plus if there are any pedestrians using the path, they should get first dibs. Bicycles can ride on grass just fine, but anyone with a walker, a wheelchair, a stroller, or just wants to keep their shoes clean, should not feel like they have to squeeze or get off the pavement to let a bicyclist pass.
Here, the convenient option for bikes is also the most friendly option. Ornamental grass shouldn't even be a top-10 concern. If the municipality won't build proper infra for all users, then desire paths are all but guaranteed.
Okay, fair enough. As a former child myself, that's eminently reasonable, LOL. Post text updated. :-)
Still too many 12yo kids on overpowered electric minibikes around here.
The problem isn't the toy, it's the parents.
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
