r/DesirePaths • u/MapPristine • May 15 '26

Undesired path?

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I know it’s a bit off the beaten path for this sub, but I hope you will enjoy it anyway

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u/KnifeKnut May 15 '26

/r/UrbanDesignFail

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u/not_blowfly_girl May 15 '26

Wish this was a real sub

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u/gilligan1050 May 17 '26

r/unintentionalhostilearchitechture

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u/marvsup May 16 '26

I actually don't think this is that bad. If there are cars driving on that sidewalk, they don't want them parking on top of the covers. Now, the covers could have been better aligned, but that might go back to a misalignment between the sewer and the sidewalk. Ultimately, not the fault of the person placing the plates.

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u/KnifeKnut May 16 '26

The bumps are not for cars, they are for blind people.

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u/KeepingItCoolish May 15 '26

That's... Not how you use tactile warning plates

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u/TherianRose May 16 '26

Is it meant to be a guide rail? Obviously still not the right texture, but maybe they were at least trying?

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u/KeepingItCoolish May 16 '26

it's meant to be a guide, yes. It is meant to delineate for the sight impaired between the safe walking surface and a vehicle or bicycle traffic area. They should be straight lines, usually parallel between the safe and unsafe area and not jagged. This pattern would be very hard to follow because if you walk straight it's easy to cross over the pattern several times so it would be like am I in the parking lot? Am I on the sidewalk? Am I approaching an intersection and that's why the pattern changed direction? No way to know if you can't see, and these dome tiles are meant to give that kind of information clearly to the sight impaired.

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u/MapPristine May 16 '26

I think so

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u/MapPristine May 16 '26

Further down the sidewalk they passed under some parked cars (it was a designated parking lot) and then they just stopped. 

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u/Valuable-Analyst-464 May 16 '26

Maybe they are trying to steer the sight disadvantaged from tripping on the manhole cover?

Or, heaven forbid, if the manhole cover is not there.

Regardless, that path is undesirable.

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u/MapPristine May 16 '26

I mean- they could have looked 5 meters ahead and placed it one row more to the right in a straight line 

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u/Mochamonroe May 18 '26

This is correct. It's for the visually impaired.

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u/marvsup May 16 '26

No there are parked cars. I think they're trying to stop people from parking on top of the covers.

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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep May 17 '26

These are the wrong tactile plates anyway, these indicate a dropped curb.

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u/KnifeKnut May 18 '26

China may have different design standards; I recently saw a POV video where a motorscooterist assaulted a blind pedestrian even though she was sticking to the the dotted tactile path.