Parks designers, if clever, would leave people to walk through those paths for few months. After paving them, they could claim they did the best for the public.Reminds me of the mathematical study of curves of pursuit. I understand that, sometimes, the paths people want aren't completely obvious at the start. But it irritates me when paved paths don't respect the "obvious" path that people want, for instance a straight line between popular destinations. People want shortcuts!
I ingenuously (sorry, naively!!) believed that those natural paths did exist only here!!!
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