… 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.
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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.
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.
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.
What “ability” is required to follow a sidewalk with a slight curve in it?
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.
I guess you don’t have people in wheelchairs or walkers where you live.
Sidewalks shouldn’t be designed as obstacle courses.
