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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.

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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.

You're in luck I guess. Google maps here in Montreal is pretty bad with knowing protected bike lanes and safe routes. It will often send you in a car sewer when there is a perfectly safe route two streets over.

To me, Google maps has outdated data for cycling. It's confused by contraflow lanes. It also often shows pedestrian paths as cycling paths. And it doesn't have all the paths and even if you write to them to correct a path, they will not.

I still use Google maps because of how easy it is for turn by turn amd I didn't find anything to replace it yet. But I have to inspect the route and make changes on the fly because Google doesn't know about modal filters and contraflow lanes.

I use OSM a lot for planning routes, decide where to pass, and then I set Google Maps and fight with it. But I didn't find anything satisfying yet for turn by turn. I'm on the the verge of making my itineraries in GPX form.

Googke Maps in my city and region sucks so much for bikes. But I look at its suggestions, ignore them when I know a safer route, and follow them if I didn't plan a route and need to get from A to B.

Never run your car in an enclosed space as the fumes could kill you. Run it outside instead, where you can slowly kill everyone around.

There's definitely nowhere for the dangerous fumes and gases to accumulate outside. It's not like a billion other cars rejecting fumes in the enclosed atmosphere will do anything that harms us, like it would if we were enclosed in a garage.

My mother bought a new car. As I am the tech person she asked me to setup the system for the maps and all that.

Well, turns out that in order to give internet to the car, she needs an app on her phone, registered with her name, address, phone number, and all the personal info you gave to the sales person. No app tracking you means no maps in the car.

I gave up because it was telling me that I didn't enter the correct personal information. Fuck that shit.

Just not Bell anymore. I've tried enough to know how it will turn out and there's no need to try again.

Plus, I really hate the fact that they send people knocking on my door, or wait for me and my neighbours by the elevator. As despicable as the others are, they are not doing this shit.

NIE. WIEDER. BELL.

Bell Canada. They have salespeople doing door to door. They also "partner" with landlords to setup little kiosks with salespeople in the hall of big buildings. Like, you're getting home, pass the RFID lock for tenants only, then there is a Bell representative waiting for you next to the elevator.

But with Bell it's not just their marketing. Once they sell you something they change the terms and/or charge you a different amount than what was agreed.

If you discuss this with one of their salesperson, they will claim that Bell has changed and promise everything will be fine this time if you take a new contract with them. But spoiler, they don't change and are always just more aggressive with their marketing.

Sometimes I feel a bit bad for the salespersons because they are often immigrants or young people that have not been fooled by Bell yet. They are enthusiastic but end up getting told to fuck off by people that have experience with Bell. I'm usually polite but very firm with them.

EDIT: Same with Hello Fresh. I have never used them but since some salesperson knocked on my door to try to sell me their services, I will make sure to never buy anything from them.

I really hate the fact that the car industry, and people themselves, have convinced the public that electric cars are environmentally friendly.

They obviously are, in a way, but it's not just a matter of switching every ICE car for an electric one. Simply doing that just perpetuates people's dependency on cars.

If you live in a remote place and need to commute regularly, then yes, get an electric car when the ICE one will die, not before.

But if you live in a city, or just an urbanized area, which is something a majority of people do, the best way to help the environment is to walk, bike and/or use public transit if possible. Not to buy another fucking car. Even if it's electric.

Elon is in it for the money, not the environment. All car manufacturers are only doing it because of 'demand' and because they can sell those things with a profit.

Electric cars are the industry's attempt to save itself, not the climate. It's so disappointing to hear the people showing off their new "EV" claim that putting one more car on the roads and consuming more material and ever more energy to move one or maybe two persons at a time, is good for the environment.