Yes, based on college conversations with groundskeepers, students tend to blaze their own trails to create the shortest routes. Besides injuries when they slip and fall in the mud, it also gets tracked into buildings, making those floors slippery as well. Paving popular paths is a way of accommodating human behavior.
I don’t think there’s an issue with desire paths becoming unusable during certain times though. It slightly extends the time you spend walking around but I’d prefer this over having unnecessary pavement.
You might as well pave the entire green space in this example.
I meant to convey how so much of the existing green space was paved already that paving the entire green space wouldn’t be much different at this point.
I would guess the paved paths make up like 20% of the image? That’s far too much in my opinion, green space in cities is already severely limited.
You can also see how every time a desire path was paved, new desire paths sprung up - which were then also paved.
A dirt path, fine and great. Sounds nice for summertime.
Lot of schools aren’t in a warm climate.
Those paths become unusable in winter, a muddy (unusable) slop when it rains or when the snow melts.
Muddy paths lead to wet socks and dirty shoes at best, and at worst, you slip and get covered.
Yes, based on college conversations with groundskeepers, students tend to blaze their own trails to create the shortest routes. Besides injuries when they slip and fall in the mud, it also gets tracked into buildings, making those floors slippery as well. Paving popular paths is a way of accommodating human behavior.
I don’t think there’s an issue with desire paths becoming unusable during certain times though. It slightly extends the time you spend walking around but I’d prefer this over having unnecessary pavement.
You might as well pave the entire green space in this example.
And why would paving the entire green space not be worse than only paving the paths people walk on?
I meant to convey how so much of the existing green space was paved already that paving the entire green space wouldn’t be much different at this point.
I would guess the paved paths make up like 20% of the image? That’s far too much in my opinion, green space in cities is already severely limited.
You can also see how every time a desire path was paved, new desire paths sprung up - which were then also paved.
You’re insufferable.
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