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Desire paths
My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.
If you lie on a sheltered concrete slab, they’ll install 20cm spikes, too
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
Quality content, thanks!
This is a visual I didn’t know I needed
Least resistance or classic human defiance?
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: !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
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 didn’t know I needed this in my life but this strikes a chord in me
not the content we deserve, but the content we desire
A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.
That hedge could actually be a gods windbreak behind the bench
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.
No way there is no desire path Delta at the end of the main path where it officially meets the pavement.
These are called desire paths.
Elephant paths in my country.
Hence the cross post to !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works :)
I saw that, hence where I got the very idea!
Hence!
Hitherto!
For the life of me, I can’t figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.
I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.
Zoom in. The path is starting to show.
Correct. Couldn’t see it at first. Just thought it was a pause for dramatic effect. Felt fine as a clone.
Faint path from frame 12 if you push your nose to the screen glass.
How’s your monitor smell?
You can’t really see it that way, it’s better push it against your tongue and taste the difference
Are you a snake? Or some kind of cold blooded reptile?
You sound just like my ex-wife
Oof. Sorry man.
Also, she says hey.
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.
Fuck yeah, awesome :)
desiremachete pathsThank you for your service 🫡
(like unironically. that rules)
All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.
There’s been locations in the past where the decision was made to initially just build the minimum paths for handicap access and etc and then wait for the desire paths to form to decide where to put the rest of them. Great idea really. The apartment complex started plowing the one that goes from my building to the gas station.
That’s actually brilliant
