You can also hit a key combo (alt + x) to bypass the questions, but as you mentioned, this was difficult to find out without internet.

This is universal. Wherever you are in the world, if there is a bike path or a bike lane, there will be cars parked on it.

I went to the small caribbean island of Marie-Galante last year and rented a bike. The only bike path on the island has cars parked in it.

We’ll just drown you with 🎶 MEMORY, ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT. I CAN SMILE AT THE OLD DAY, I WAS BEAUTIFUL THEN. 🎶

The mistake was to not turn it into an aspic.

I gew up in a small town in Quebec but moved in Montreal in 2009 and kind of fell in love with the region. Being an island surrounded by water, and two lakes, it’s certainly not the ocean but there’s plenty of water activities to do. Not only in Montreal but in all the towns and villages of the region around the river and the lakes.

Boating is made easy by a network of canals, like the Lachine canal and the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue canal. It’s possible to go kayaking or paddle boarding in multiple places around the island or others, like the Boucherville islands. You can camp on those islands too. There’s an extensive network of dedicated cycling paths in, but also around the city, going deep in the countryside.

Admittedly, the only thing missing might be the beaches. We some nearby like the Oka beach, or the St-Zotique beach, but it’s not comparable. Otherwise, I think the Montreal region has much to offer, in summer.

Oh don’t worry I think we also have our lot of strange and/or mentally ill people.

There are select places where this more concentrated than other parts of the city. Like on Parc between des Pins and Sherbrooke, where there’s a lot of homeless people in a doubtful mental state. Or park Émilie-Gamelin over the Berri station.

We even have infamous scam artists. I don’t know if he’s still doing it but there was a guy with a hernia that was telling a whole story a out how he’s from another province, lost his stuff and needs money for the treatment, or some shit like that.

There are several posts about this guy on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/19zff6/anyone_else_run_into_this_guy_claims_hes_from/

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/833o77/tumor_scam_guy_lives/

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/asvxvj/tumor_hernia_scam_guy_still_around/

Uh, FYI right on red is also generally not permitted in New York City.

Unlike many North American cities, Right Turns on Red (RTOR) are severely restricted in New York City.

And as someone walking and cycling in Montreal, I’m remembered how dangerous right turns on red are every time I exit the island. I’m glad Montreal is resisting to this car centric abomination.

If it’s not a BMW, it’s gonna be a pickup truck.

I can’t help with the article but his sentence seems to be translated from French, or built like it was. It’s much clearer if you can imagine he said it in French.

If he said, or thought “Il n’est pas question de négocier…”, it translates to “there’s no question”, but it means there is no possibility, that it’s not on the radar, that it won’t change. It’s an expression that just implies a strong no.

Pretty sure he’s not sweating it.

I could care less.

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.