footpath
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"If the footpath is discontinuous, it's simply more convenient to keep walking on the road," says Goel.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
A series of messages guided him to a wad of cash hidden under some rubbish near the entrance to a footpath tunnel.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
He installed an electric security gate in September 2022, which prompted the West Berkshire Ramblers group to apply to recognise a public footpath on the land in January 2023.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The second gate raises a different question: whether a footpath on Levy’s land, on the lagoon’s edge, is public or private.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
And now he was whipping through the grass, which had become a green blur, hanging on with all his strength as the quad carried him back toward the footpath.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
The picture above was taken by a man who posted on social media about "morons on electric bikes" scaring a nearby horse, external as they rode illegally on public footpaths.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
A few steps from the hotel, a cantilevered pedestrian bridge spans Falls Park on the Reedy, a wooded ravine with cascading waterfalls and leafy footpaths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
So when India's Supreme Court declared in June that the right to walk safely on designated footpaths was a fundamental right, external, it felt less like judicial activism than common sense arriving decades late.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Civic agencies are often reluctant to widen footpaths because they view carriageway space as sacrosanct.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The footpaths we followed spent a lot of time in the woods but also emerged at obliging intervals to take us along sunny back roads and over stiles and through farm fields and hamlets.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
