My guess is one of the paths gets full of puddles before the other during the rain.
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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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Could be. I remember like 5 years ago there was only one path and it was not worn down to the dirt but was just grass for quite a while
Because you are looking at it from the destination. People from across that field all want to reach that point you're at and their paths gather like rivers flowing together.
Love me some desire paths, you can't ever have too many of them!
The Romans paved theirs down to the bedrock. 😜
Maybe the silver car owner always parks there, and later in the day when they return to it they need their own desire path
I probably should have waited for the car to pass. Never see anyone park there.
gonna go ahead and guess these are typical walkers gravitating towards different ends of the street as they near the sidewalk, makes sense
Maybe. But the forked end goes to a low traffic road without sidewalk and pretty much just alleyways.
that's for the nighttime crime fighter route 🌝
Isn't it beautiful how they join? They could be straight but chose to combine.
You paint a pretty narrative. But sadly it is one path splitting into 2 and not 2 combining into one. The right fork has been there for over 10 years and the left one is younger than 2 years.
It had offspring - how wonderful ;p
In 74 years, there will be 10 paths.
This is what vintage story needs...... I wonder how hard it would be to implement.....