… 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.

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      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.

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        The shop is 1.3km away, but because of no road crossings or sidewalks it’s actually a 5km trip without a car.

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        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.

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      If they had made it straight there would be a diagonal desire path going right instead, only solution is to concrete everything!