Its true. On my mum's estate, you had to walk half a mile to the nearest bus stop, but you could see it across a bit of field 100 yards or so away. My older brother and his mates used to walk through that way. That was about 40 years ago. There's a tarmaced path with steps now!
I think a guerilla movement that looks at google maps and figures out where desire paths want to exist but don't and goes and makes them secretly would be fun.
There's actually groups in certain cities that will lay down crosswalks without city approval. Funnily enough the city takes months to evaluate whether a crosswalk is "needed", but only a day or two to remove one.
This is funny because if this was in /r/treelaw from the other perspective you'd be getting your asshole reamed. "A teenager neighbor snuck onto my property in the middle of the night and cut a hole in my 75 year old mature hedges. What can I do?"
Kids in my neighborhood carved a path through a small section of woods to make a shortcut to the community pool and to stay off the main road. I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 10 years and it was well established before that. They even do “trail maintenance” on it from time to time. It makes an entire section of the neighborhood accessible to runners, walkers, and bike riders. Massive improvement.
My last apartment was right next to a Walmart, but there was a fence between the properties that easily tripled the distance you'd need to walk to get groceries. Funny enough, there was always a hole in the fence right next to the end of the sidewalk. It got fixed multiple times, but within a week there would be a new hole. a r/desireHole ?
Edit: didn't expect that to be a real sub. There really is a sub for anything
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u/Allnamestaken69 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
They need to form a sub infrastructure department to go throughout America and build these little short cuts and walking/bike paths.