I'm not sure it's an age thing, but more of a where you are in life thing.
I don't have a house and my apartment comes with a fridge and a range. There is a laundry room in the building.
And I'm guessing that appliance would be delivered? Because again, I don't want to have to move it. Not even if I change place.
If I'd win an appliance, I'd just sell it on the spot. Such a hassle.
I'm not a native English speaker but I think you may want to use peaked, as piquer is from French and means to jab, to prick, or to sting.
You can say something piqued your interest, or that something someone said piqued you the wrong way.
Or if you want to use it in that way, you can also say that nothing piques you, or that you are not piqued by this comment.
Doesn't some Disneyland parks ironically have shuttle buses going around their parking lots?
Like, their parking lots are so big that getting to the entrance still requires taking a bus after leaving your car in the pile.
If I ever visit one of those parks, it'll be in Paris, where there is a train station just by the park.
This reminds me that I kept the bus schedules of the intercity coach connecting a string of small cities in Quebec, that I was using 15 years ago. They had multiple departures a day. I remember being able to go from St-Hyacinthe to Victoriaville and back in the same day.
Now they have two departures a week and cut stops in multiple villages along the way.
In fact, there were coaches in the town I grew up in, back in the 90ies. Obviously there is nothing now. My mother says there were also passenger trains but they were cancelled in the 90ies too, and now there's only freight on those tracks.
I have never owned a car, always used public transit, coaches and done whatever I can to avoid using cars, and I can see through the 2 decades of my adult life in Québec that things are even regressing in some areas.
Am I reading the date correctly? This is from 2016, right? Not that the current outrage is not justified, but it took a while to get there.
This is actually making me want to visit Paris.
I never seriously considered visiting Paris before, because to me it was just another western city choked by cars. In fact, I go to other countries with the intention to move around using bikes and public transit, and I'm disappointed if it's not possible.
So, since the city and the mayor started to "roll out the red carpet" for bikes, I'm much more tempted to go there. It seems more pleasant. I would rent a bike, slowly explore the city, and see how they are transforming it to be more human.
Also, I speak French natively and it's been pretty entertaining to see all the comments on social media from pro car people. One thing that came up frequently was that removing cars and replacing them with bikes would "wreck Paris".
Le singe est sur la branche.
Can I ask how you edit bike paths on Google maps? All I've ever been able to do is fill reports (the feedback system) that seems to be ignored. Everything I find about this says to use the feedback system. But I've done it a few times and it worked for something about a road, many years ago, but I tried it a few times again for bike paths and nothing was corrected.
In Québec all provincial parks (SÉPAQ) ban music on speakers. Trails and campgrounds. Those parks have somewhat strict rules, like you also can't use "mood lights" or decorative lights, but it helps to make the stay a bit more calm.
It's one of the things that you notice once you're in a camping or in a trail where that rule doesn't exist. I went to camp in a provincial park in Ontario last year and it felt weird to hear people's radios while cycling through the campgrounds.
Drummondville in Québec. They have multiple stroads where they put a bidirectional bike path on one side of the street, and sometimes a sidewalk on the other side, or not.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7og9R94mDoKashZZ9
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We can't see it on street view but they recently painted pedestrians on the bike paths, to indicate they are shared, probably because cyclists were getting annoyed.
A friend was recently complaining that cyclists were (also) complaining when he was walking on bike paths, but the city itself asks pedestrians to walk on bike paths because there's often no sidewalk. There's space for 4 lanes of cars plus parking on both sides, but not a sidewalk and a bike path, it's one or the other.
In don't remember the guy's name right now but there was an infamous cycling advocate a few decades ago that was against bike paths because it put cyclists into a specific space instead of making everyone share the streets that were already existing. I kind of wish his way of thinking won. Instead of pushing cyclists, pedestrians, people with strollers, people on scooters and all of the "not a car" forms of transport into the margins of a street, we should give the street to everyone, and force people with cars to share and care for everyone.
I know it's fantasy and unfortunately cars will always be given most of the space, even when road dieting, but it would have been nice.
I could care less.