30 Times People Ignored The Designated Paths In The Name Of Convenience (New Pics)

Well done Jason.

“There are no accidents.” -Master Oogway

Try that over here, two results : if they know who did it, they will be fined and the zebra will be removed.

This was more than good. Have you studied psychology?

That's actually very nice...

Total nut job!

Can't really blame "urban planners" for this one.

I moved into a house and started feeding nuts to the squirrels. Within a couple weeks my deck was overrun with many dozens of them fighting and chewing on my wooden deck. I stopped feeding the squirrels.

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Look at that little trail 🐾

Smart. Here is somone who actually took in what people wanted.

In Finland we wait for fresh snow and then send someone to mark desired path

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Regocnition?

RECOGNITION....

i heard that people who made them were referred to as 'meandertal' by planners - which is kind of nice!

Sometimes the direct path is too steep for someone using a wheechair, that's may be the reason for the long path.

As a wheelchair user, I appreciate the long path, but there's no reason not to have both, and steps between the the loops of path would be attractive and functional.

Take the path less traveled

That's some pretty strong desire right there!!

People can miss so much in life by not taking the scenic route.

Detour? Me?? Naaaah...

"Build it and they will come" "Close it and they will walk around"

Just exchange the Detour signs and they'll correctly point towards the dirt path. :-)

No let me go up path? Screw you, watch me build me own.

sign, sign, everywhere a sign

If this could only work in videogames...

It shows the fence/property line perpendicular to the path & is basically there should any land dispute happen. OP is in the UK where trespass law is very different.

...but it's locked!!

I think in order for a gate to be useful, it helps to install a fence...

Poor gate

Looks like a cattle road

These paths are often made on purpose. It's an "bootleg" access. Having the proper papers done to open a new roadside connection would be an hassle -if possible at all- so the store just had the landscaping crew leave an undocumented, conveniently placed cutoff and don't complain when people use it. Of course, it is not a proper pathway, there will be no signs pointing to it (and likely there will be a sign close by pointing to the proper path) and it won't be in any official plan, so the store have plausible deniability if anyone get hurt by using it.

Our Walmart is on a highway on one side and is across the highway from a residential area with a lot of apartments. It has a sturdy and really heavy wrought iron fence on that side of the parking lot. The spaces between the bars would be big enough for a child or skinny adult to get through. Someone has managed to alter one of the bars at the most popular point of entry by foot, which is under the trees at the edge of the parking lot, so that the bar goes up to let a normal sized adult through, but can be put back in place to look like the fence has never been touched. Damned clever civil engineering in my opinion. Solves the problem of safe entry for customers on foot, as the only other way in is alongside all the cars pulling into and out of the parking lot. Why Walmart didn’t design the space to accommodate customers on foot, I don’t know.

Looks like the path to Walmart in Chicopee, MA.

Pave it already

That is nice

Town nearby did this. They had huge lawn in front of apartment building and sidewalk went around it. If you wanted to go anywhere across the street and actually used sidewalk, you would have to make a roughly 100 meters detour. No wonder everyone crossed the lawn. It took years before they finally made new sidewalk across the lawn

One to Narnia and one to the Shire