desire path

Noun

 * 1) * 2000, Fran Tonkiss, in Steve Pile & Nigel Thrift (Eds.), City A-Z, p. 1:
 * In a fit of misplaced municipal energy, the local council is paving the desire path that countless walkers have beaten diagonally across my local park.
 * In a fit of misplaced municipal energy, the local council is paving the desire path that countless walkers have beaten diagonally across my local park.