It doesn't take much...
It doesn't take much...
… 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.
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 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.
The shop is 1.3km away, but because of no road crossings or sidewalks it's actually a 5km trip without a car.
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.
Ah, a Desire Path. Love to see them!
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.
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.
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.
op be like "get off my lawn you little shits"
...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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
EDIT: Ha, just noticed the topic I posted this under. I should pay more attention.
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 🤷
Sure, terribly invasive though. And probably not up to code in whatever HOA hell this looks like lol
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.
All footpaths I made in skylines were triangular for this reason.
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?
