• tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 days ago

    But why is it human nature to put a bench right where people are walking. It’s like people in charge get off on creating obstacles for the common man just to feel powerful.

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      18 days ago

      People weren’t supposed to create that shortcut in the first place, thus disrespecting the park.

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        18 days ago

        The park design should have accounted for the crosswalk on the top intersection from the get go or, alternatively, once the people made their desire for a path there obvious. The park isn’t some sentient thing with its own opinion, it got made by people with 2 main functions: enhancing the environment and serving as a foot path. It is obviously failing at the second until the designers finally relented and put a proper path down to the crosswalk.

        Note: you will always get people not using the path but when it’s enough people to form a permanent trail then the park design obviously did not account for a rather popular destination and should be revised.

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        18 days ago

        Green spaces: Just for viewing.

        What kind of dystopian hellscape do you want the world to be, exactly?

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        18 days ago

        weren’t supposed to

        As if walking on grass in an emtpy park is comparable to driving a red light on a busy street.