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Ah the ol’ desire path strikes again!
I enjoy the Desire Paths community here on Lemmy. It’s so interesting to see what paths people take contrary to what paths are laid out for them.
Instance-agnostic link: [email protected]
I didn’t know I needed this in my life but this strikes a chord in me
I created a desire path by biking to school every day in high school. After I left a sidewalk popped up covering it inch for inch. Mission accomplished
I’ve heard a story about a college campus that didn’t install any paths, waited for natural dirt paths to form in the grass, then installed paths there. Neat idea.
I think that would be UC berkley
Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there’s your pathways.
And then some people just like walking in grass instead of cement
I heard the same story, but for a Disneyland.
I heard that’s what they did for your mom’s house.
Whole front yard is BRICK
nah it’s just a three-dude-wide strip between the bus stop and the bedroom
In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.
Thank you for your service 🫡
(like unironically. that rules)Fuck yeah, awesome :)
desiremachete paths
I have a hobby of doing the opposite: making undesirepaths.
During large snowfalls, I often need to bring out the shovel and make a path, both from my house and in front of it towards the main road. I like to add turns and bends, just enough to confuse and lightly annoy, but not enough for people to consider stepping into deep snow or making their own path.
Psychopath.
Nah
My gosh this is such a funny premise.
Calm down satan.
I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.
Until the fuckers added another 2m/6ft to the walk by putting in the trashcan…
I heard Finnish municipalities do studies when it’s newly snowed to check where the desired footpath goes by looking at tracks in the snow. It avoids that issue in the image
That certainly speeds up the process so they can Finnish early.
They don’t wanna be Russian around.
Otherwise there’s Norway they’ll be done in time
Sweden.
Sweet, man.
Dude!!! What’s mine say???
It says you can’t have a race there, all lines are Finnish lines
A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.
So far where I live have pretty normal benches.
University of Maryland did this with their walkways for a while. They let the kids beat down paths for the year to make the sidewalks.
Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.
I’ve often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.
They had regular sidewalks that the campus planners made. But they took a year to see what the students walking paths looked like.
not the content we deserve, but the content we desire
My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.
That’s why there are all those “keep off the grass” signs. If people just walked all over the grass willy-nilly we’d soon be knee deep in benches and bins, and nobody wants that.
we’d soon be knee deep in benches and bins
This is a visual I didn’t know I needed
Quality content, thanks!
I understood that reference!
The homeless do.
If you lie on a sheltered concrete slab, they’ll install 20cm spikes, too
Local discounter had something like this, they just installed a hedge AND a fence. Really disenchanting. Not going there anymore.
Well I moved. But they cheated.
a bit of an extreme reaction to a hedge AND a fence, but I’ll allow it.
I’m playing the game on a bigger scale now
Fences don’t always work, I saw one go up and soon had a hole in it. Turns out deer are pretty persistent and willing to break them. Paths are not just used by people.
a hedge AND a fence
Cordless power tools are really good these days.
All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.
We were looking after someones dog for a week and we have a big yard for our dogs. This dog and one of ours got on so well they would chase each around the yard for hours, so much that after a week there was a desire path race track formed with noticeable banks around the corners and everything.
Post a picture! Sounds awesome
These are called desire paths.
Hence the cross post to [email protected] :)
I saw that, hence where I got the very idea!
Hence!
Hitherto!
Elephant paths in my country.
Goat paths here
