Oikopolku [straightened trail]
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Thanks, desire path is a great name for it.
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Raise the lower area so it’s level with the higher area. No stairs required. 
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Cat path! In my early apartment living days in SoCal, I parked my car outside in an assigned area under a long wooden awning shared among the line of other parked cars in my section. Every morning, I would find a cat’s dirty paw prints on my car’… a straight line down the center from front to back on the hood, top, and trunk. I simply logged that among all the odd things that cat’s desired and that I could not understand but accepted.
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Height clearance bar over the ends of the path! Anything traveling through under 4’ high probably won’t be heavy enough to compact the soil.
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Sorry, I can’t see where you’ve hidden the \s marker.
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Better then nothing.
Actually, it’s not. It’s far too steep for going up or down, on a bike or wheelchair, or with one. But its presence will tempt people on bikes (and wheelchairs) to try it, which is practically a deathwish.
If there were no pretence at ramps at all, it would be obvious that wheelchair users should find the elevator, rather than this “how good are your brakes? Race you to the bottom” trap.
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I was thinking the same thing, but then wondered if it was an optical illusion after looking at the angle of the handrails over the landings. It might appear to be more steep than it actually is?
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Bushes and hedges are used in landscape design to keep people on desired paths
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Back when that was there people went up and down with bikes on that every day. Wheelchairs never now that I think about it… I think there was a lift too…
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Just guessing, but practical design is something that tingles my brain…If most/all of the foot traffic from the foreground goes to the right when they get to the new level, then a diagonal path (could be shallower steps) makes more sense then a rigid staircase going up 45º in the wrong direction.
ETA: I knew I liked the cut of your jib, @IronEdithKidd !
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That’s a really, really bad idea. A bicyclist will get slammed hard.
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Probably needs lots of signage in advance.
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Re: those stairs and their “ramps” - way to steep for wheelchairs or prams and the like.1)
Let’s say the stairs have a rise/run ratio of something in the region of 1:2.2)
That’s a gradient of 50% (= 26°50’).
A ramp for wheelchairs should have 3% (or 1°40’) tops.3)
A half-assed token “effort” that is completely useless isn’t better than nothing, it’s an insult.
1) Unless you want to recreate that one scene from Battleship Potemkin.
2) Say 15 cm : 30 cm. Which would be within the parameters3) for anything that’s publicly accessable. And keeps the maths involved here easy. Although it looks a bit steeper to me in the picture. Some of the steps also look a bit wonky; the rise from step to step should not vary for more than 5 mm. People will trip otherwise, especially going down in a hurry.
3) Per DIN 18024. Other norms/codes4) for stairs and ramps and whatnot are very, very similar because of physique and physics. Even if the codes in your neck in the woods differ, this is a good baseline.
4) I also count an intermediate landing every 18 steps which is very DIN.
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Less than ideal, but that could be an improvement for pushchairs/buggys. Since that looks like a station, a tweak to the design could include people with wheeled suitcases. However, needs separate up and down ramps.
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Back at TOP I once started a topic to post links to weird videos I discovered via Jonny Trunk’s weekly email. (Jonny is an aficionado, collector and promoter of all sorts of library music, not that any of the video links he sends have anything to do with that.)
A few people seemed to appreciate some of the odd things that were posted there. Today’s weekly missive from Jonny contained this. I think it qualifies as weird or odd, even if it is just the most poker-faced parody. (Or is it?)
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