Desire Lines

02/17/2019

User experience and Design

photo by Helge Andersen

02/07/2019

If enough people are crossing mid-block, it's time to formalize these routes.

11/20/2018

History & current best practices of by in

When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet

03/21/2018

Sneckdowns in DC today. https://twitter.com/DCDOTRA/status/976495564719296512

01/10/2018

Desire lines show up in the snow.

“Here's a picture in daylight. You can see the desire lines in the snow. students have to cross four lanes of busy traffic on top of trudging through snow to get to the bus stop. It's unacceptable. ”

12/24/2017

Tis the season for (north of the equator)

“Interesting looking at the desire lines of people , created by people walking too.”

12/01/2017

Leaf desire lines.

“Got together with some neighbours and transformed a local intersection with chalk & leaves, revealing a surplus surface area of 2,000 square feet which could be re-designed as a parkette, new sidewalks, and much shorter/safer crossings. 🌳🚶🏽 More: https://t.co/SNYkMMo0Ui”

11/27/2017

Snow lines & sneckdowns. True desire lines show up clearly in winter. https://twitter.com/dnproulx/status/935187836491517952

09/18/2017

How to create trails based on where people have already voted with their feet.

Informal ‘desire paths‘ can form with as few as fifteen traversals of an unpaved route, creating spontaneous new trails shaped by pedestrians effectively voting with their feet. These paths frequently become self-reinforcing: others intuit the potential advantages of a newly-forming route and follow...

07/11/2017

Desire lines as big as Texas.

07/03/2017

The tracks desire lines. Levels of traffic stress are high in downtown Seattle!

06/03/2017

Don Kostelec‏ secretly built a detached and an attached sidewalk on the same side of the same road to see which one pedestrians prefer. Guess which one they chose?