What is the trick to making paths over intersections?

[Taegost]

I just spent 20 minutes trying to make walking paths over the road, and I haven't been successful yet. It keeps telling me that the path is overlapping something, and it looks like the road is outlined in red, but I can't find the sweet spot to actually make it go over the road. I was able to do it once with the covered walkway at max elevation step, one step up, and it snapped right to the intersection corners and I was able to bridge over one road in the T-Intersection, but then trying to make a path back down was a lesson in futility... I had to make it REALLY long before the "slope too steep" error went away, but even then I couldn't place it because it was overlapping the path I snapped it to...
This was a relatively easy thing to do in CS1, but I can't seem to get it to work now, even when I disable snapping entirely and try to freehand it.

[Ozone]

I start by making the bridge over the road, then connect the bridge to the ground with a slope, and finally the ground to the road.
It would be amazing if the game allowed bigger slopes for pedestrian and turn them into stairs.

[Taegost]

Originally posted by Ozone:

I start by making the bridge over the road, then connect the bridge to the ground with a slope, and finally the ground to the road.
It would be amazing if the game allowed bigger slopes for pedestrian and turn them into stairs.

I appreciate your response, but I already know how to make the paths themselves... I should have been more clear, the question actually is: Has anyone figured out the trick to the super finicky system so that it's consistent?

I haven't been able to do it consistently, but the best so far has been making the paths 7.5M above the road, giving at least 3 zoning blocks space between the pillars and the road, and for the slope down, go down to 2.5M and it'll slope and snap in a much shorter distance... It just looks janky AF

[Ozone]

You can build them at 6.25m high, but for the rest, it's janky at best.
I also noticed that pedestrian continue to cross the roads even tho you removed the crossing. They just don't care at all.

[Helen Carnate]

Make them under instead.