Path of least resistance

[olafurp@lemmy.world]

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

[ilinamorato@lemmy.world]

All I see here is people tricking the government into putting in a nice little micropark.

[_____@lemm.ee]

it's almost like humans don't move like a rook (car)

[feathercrown@lemmy.world]

Instance-agnostic link: [email protected]

Looks like there's a lemmy world version too: [email protected]

[21cabbage@lemmynsfw.com]

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.

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

My takeaway from this is that I can spawn park benches and greenery by walking on the grass.

[mpony@lemmy.world]

a bit of an extreme reaction to a hedge AND a fence, but I'll allow it.

[5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm playing the game on a bigger scale now

[notabot@lemm.ee]

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.

[grue@lemmy.world]

a hedge AND a fence

Cordless power tools are really good these days.

[martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This gives me huge canvas vibes because that was happening a lot there. Haha (It was called canvas, right? The event where you place a pixel every so often.)

[theneverfox@pawb.social]

That's actually brilliant

[joelk111@lemmy.world]

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.

[gork@lemm.ee]

That certainly speeds up the process so they can Finnish early.

[jaybone@lemmy.world]

They don’t wanna be Russian around.

[cevn@lemmy.world]

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

[sibannac@lemmy.world]

A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.

[klear@lemmy.world]

we’d soon be knee deep in benches and bins

[stamau123@lemmy.world]

I think that would be UC berkley

[spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works]

This is a visual I didn't know I needed