Weaponized delay is what makes time a dimension of traversability. A pathway that takes ten years may be functionally inaccessible even if every step is nominally available, because delay can function as denial:
The institution never says no. It simply makes the path so slow that the participant gives up.
That is why the model cares about time-to-resolution in licensing, appeals, permits, care access, housing approvals, legal disputes, and project decisions — and why it treats unreasonable delay as a structural impairment in its own right, not a neutral fact of administrative life. Weaponized delay is especially dangerous because it is deniable: no rule is broken, no right formally refused, and the institution can claim the pathway remains open the whole time it is being run out. It is a common instrument of structural capture, and a pathway audit is what surfaces it, by measuring how long a real journey actually takes rather than whether each step exists. See The Structural Principles.