Bicycle/pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge in New York City. The two trenches are worn entirely by bicycle tire traffic. These are not car tracks as the width slightly varies later. The city has done zero effort to clean the bridge paths after the snow and almost zero effort to clean protected street bicycle paths. The intended use for this path is for pedestrians to be on the right half (you can see the middle dividing white line if you look for it), and for bicyclists to use the left two quarters. You can notice the yellow line intended to divide the two directions of bicycle traffic, with about 2ft per direction. The actual spacing resulting from natural use is on display and apparently way different.
Nah, this doesn’t count. The designers creating a walkway then people walking down that walkway way…
… that’s not a desire path to anywhere new. It’s just people traveling a path in yhe way designers expected.
I mean, it’s a bridge, people aren’t going where they desire, they’re going to where ever the bridge connects on the other side (so it’s not really controlled by their desires).
Total fail. Not what this place is for.
That’s not what OP is saying. OP is saying that the desired width of the bike lane is as seen in the snow. the actual width of the bike lane is much less since there’s a pedestrian path there too.