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democracy's oldest infrastructure: anywhere two feet decided to keep going.
means A narrow path made for walking, especially one worn into the ground by people on foot rather than built for vehicles.
from A plain Old English compound of fōt ("foot") and pæth ("path"). The word path itself goes back to a Germanic root shared with Dutch pad and German Pfad, and possibly — curiously — related to the Persian word for road, though that distant link is debated rather than settled. The sense is exactly what the parts say: the path you take on foot, named long before anyone bothered to pave anything.
- desire lines
- Worn shortcuts planners study to redesign official paths
- ancient roots
- Some English footpaths predate the Roman invasion
- right to roam
- UK mass trespasses legally opened thousands of trails
- slower wins
- Walking speed reveals what cars erase entirely
milford track — 33.5 km hiking trail in fiordland, new zealand, ranked world's greatest walk
cotswold way — 102 mile footpath from chipping campden to bath, england, established 1970
kungsleden — 270 km long-distance footpath through swedish lapland from abisko to hemavan
pennine way — 268 mile footpath from derbyshire to scottish border, opened 1965