Desire Lines

Just going where I want without regard to badly-laid-out footpaths.

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

Surrenden road, Brighton. #DesireLine

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

A funny tale of desire lines on this estate in Southwark: People used to cut across the grass here, and a mud track appeared - so they put in a gravel path. But people don’t seem to like walking on the gravel and a second desire line dirt path has appeared alongside it

[Brent Bellamy @brent_bellamy]

Textbook ‘desire line’. The curve probably looked good in a plan drawing.

[Murky Depths @TheMurkyDepths]

Desire line in Abbey Wood

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

Junction of Surrenden Road and Surrenden Crescent, Brighton. #DesireLine

[𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖛𝖊 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖍𝖆𝖒 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚲 @stevegilham1]

@edwardjtaylor The bridge was open less than 24h and it had already started.

Why is it that cycle junctions are always hard square like this, while road junctions have slip lanes to accommodate the turn?

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

#DesireLine in Senningerberg, Luxembourg. (thanks to @clarissawam for the photo)

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

#DesireLine in Lorentzweiler, Luxembourg.
(Thanks to @clarissawam for the photo)

[Rail613 X-ed out of Twit ter 🦫 @rail613]

PWGSC designers clearly put the @BikeOttawa bike rack right on a #desireline.
Flaherty Building. https://t.co/AMXi9bKv7S

[Family ByCycle @FamilyByCycle]

@Jontafkasi @MCRCycleSam @RantyHighwayman Like these bad boys? #DesireLine

[CD @BikeSkateBox]

#desireline

[Walk Toronto @Walk_TO]

Classic desire line - Green P parking lot in Summerhill. Put a path where people want to go! #walkTO #desireline

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

Stanmer Park, Brighton
#DesireLine

[Savage Houtkop @SavageHoutkop]

Nothing like #desireline and #barriers

[Sarah Nicholas @SarahNicholas]

This sign knows it has lost.

[Shoreham-By-Cycle @ShorehamByCycle]

While @adurandworthing has recently allowed some grass to grow longer (great for nature this time of year, we’re told!) you can more easily recognise ‘desire lines’: clues that people naturally create routes they find useful by foot or bike. Here’s Williams Road Village Green.

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

Surrenden Road, Brighton

[Steve Essex @Steveandabike]

@RantyHighwayman @BeyondBicycle People just go round the edges.

[Desire Lines @lines_of_desire]

A different type of #DesireLine but a desire line nonetheless. Saw two families crossing the Fiveways junction (Brighton) via red arrows. They could get across in one green man cycle whereas to go the "correct" way (green arrows) would have taken minimum 2 cycles.