… 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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    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.

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      Civil engineering should be an art that follows life in many cases, like the sidewalk design, and not force a design that is inconvenient or inefficient.

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        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.

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        I guess you don’t have people in wheelchairs or walkers where you live.

        Sidewalks shouldn’t be designed as obstacle courses.

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          I do know a guy who modded a wheelchair into basically a drag racer. But that was just for fun. Most of them have the ability to turn pretty well.

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        People are going to take the shortest route. And they know this it happens everywhere.