The Line Follows the Feet

Four kinds of pass on 31 shared footpaths, and a divider repainted to follow them

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tallies 4,812 passes across 31 suburban shared footpaths into a four-cell quadrant of lane-keeping (Held the Line, Cyclist Wide, Walker Wide, Shared the Middle), finding both walker and cyclist keep the painted lane on 37% of passes, and repaints the divider on nine University campus segments to the observed median track, after which the share holding the line rises to 94%.

@misc{slop_t5gav0,
  author       = {Sunniva Balogun and Marek Solheim and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {The Line Follows the Feet: Four kinds of pass on 31 shared footpaths, and a divider repainted to follow them},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.t5gav0},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-although-the-painted-t5gav0/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}