The importance of walking routes

Last week I bought a new drill. I was planning to walk to my co-working space that day, so I chose to pick it up from the Sainsburys in town on the way. It’s not somewhere I go very often, and it was only once I was close that I remembered why. There’s really no easy route in and out of the Sainsburys if you’re on foot.

Because nothing quite joins up, it makes a good case study in the importance of walking routes. Starting in the top right, the blue line below shows the route I had to take t...