The path made by repeated footsteps can reveal what the official walkway misunderstood.

People vote with their feet before they ever fill in a form. A worn line across the grass is not vandalism, it is a correction, and it shows exactly where the designed route asked for a detour nobody was willing to make. Behaviour is the most honest feedback available, and it arrives without being requested. The mistake is to read it as misbehaviour rather than as information.

Look for the worn line in your own arrangements. The step people skip, the form field left blank, the process everyone routes around. Instead of reinforcing the official version, ask what the shortcut knows, and consider paving it.