Night Commuting Lights: One 800 lumen or Two 500 lumen lights?
08-15-13, 09:32 AM
#76
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Actually my wallet is getting more interesting as time goes on:
1 Texas drivers license
1 Maine drivers license
1 German Universitätsausweis
1 German Gesundheitskarte
1 DB BahnCard 25
1 Commerzbank VISA
4 Commerzbank EC-Karten
2 Bank of America Credit Cards (1 VISA and 1 MC)
6 Subway/Public Transport Cards (Boston, NYC, MTL, Stockholm, Western Sweden (Göteborg), Oslo)
5 EUR
500 DKK
32 USD
my American birth certificate
my American SS card
a Guteschein form a German Autobahn toilet worth €0.50
an IKEA receipt for 2700 DKK (about 500USD)
and various restaurant business cards so I can make reservations when I travel to certain cities (Dublin, Paris, Tuscany, Frankfurt, pottery in Hungary, art studio in Hungary, etc...)
1 Texas drivers license
1 Maine drivers license
1 German Universitätsausweis
1 German Gesundheitskarte
1 DB BahnCard 25
1 Commerzbank VISA
4 Commerzbank EC-Karten
2 Bank of America Credit Cards (1 VISA and 1 MC)
6 Subway/Public Transport Cards (Boston, NYC, MTL, Stockholm, Western Sweden (Göteborg), Oslo)
5 EUR
500 DKK
32 USD
my American birth certificate
my American SS card
a Guteschein form a German Autobahn toilet worth €0.50
an IKEA receipt for 2700 DKK (about 500USD)
and various restaurant business cards so I can make reservations when I travel to certain cities (Dublin, Paris, Tuscany, Frankfurt, pottery in Hungary, art studio in Hungary, etc...)
08-15-13, 10:05 AM
#77
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Had a Pocket fill of PL Zloty coins, in '91 they were 3500:1U$D, so you found lots dropped on the street.. in Warsaw, etc.
but got to a campsite on the Danube after crossing down from CZ..
into Austria , pre Euro , so had no Shillings for the camp owner , so I gave him that wad.
but got to a campsite on the Danube after crossing down from CZ..
into Austria , pre Euro , so had no Shillings for the camp owner , so I gave him that wad.
08-15-13, 10:15 AM
#78
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Had a Pocket fill of PL Zloty coins, in '91 they were 3500:1U$D, so you found lots dropped on the street.. in Warsaw, etc.
but got to a campsite on the Danube after crossing down from CZ..
into Austria , pre Euro , so had no Shillings for the camp owner , so I gave him that wad.
but got to a campsite on the Danube after crossing down from CZ..
into Austria , pre Euro , so had no Shillings for the camp owner , so I gave him that wad.
It had Thai Baht, Vietnamese Dong, Cambodian Riel, Japanese Yen, Korean Won, Polish Złoty, Hungarian Forints, Romanian Lei, Mexican Pesos, Estonian Crowns, Latvian Lats, Lithuanian Litas and Icelandic Crowns.
The Cambodian money was super dirty and old, the Dong were super high denominations, the Pesos and Lei were brand new like monopoly money and had see through panels. The Estonian Crowns and the 200 Forint bills were no longer legal tender.
I kept the USD, EUR, GBP and Norwegian/Danish/Swedish crowns for future spending
08-15-13, 10:24 AM
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08-15-13, 11:42 AM
#82
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well UK still retains some regional dialects, but if you stick to Ox-bridge where the Uni's are , then that will be less evident.
08-15-13, 06:07 PM
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I doubt seriously that a couple of flashlights on a bicycle are going to cause mayhem and mass collisions and permanent eye damage to the poor cagers driving while texting. The flashlights might cause them to look up just long enough from their smart phones to avoid running them over along with the bicycle they are attached to and the pink squashy part sitting atop it.
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08-15-13, 06:54 PM
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You'll have to excuse me if I don't buy that one.
Every day 2,524,500 people manage to use the combination of 68 metro stations and 190 bus routes packed onto an island only 50km by 15km, but you HAVE TO walk 17 km cause its faster? I doubt it. The only reason I can think of for that is if you're working a graveyard shift in some obscure industrial location in which case you'd still have a harder time finding lunch or coffee than finding a bus that runs all night.
Every day 2,524,500 people manage to use the combination of 68 metro stations and 190 bus routes packed onto an island only 50km by 15km, but you HAVE TO walk 17 km cause its faster? I doubt it. The only reason I can think of for that is if you're working a graveyard shift in some obscure industrial location in which case you'd still have a harder time finding lunch or coffee than finding a bus that runs all night.
My workplace is isolated but there are thousands of workers around and hardly any transit. There's a 6-lane boulevard though, and they destroyed a foot bridge over highway 20 to make room for a new car lane. Montreal compares well to the rest of North America but that's like being best of the worst. It's not that great when you live outside the metro zone.
08-15-13, 08:15 PM
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There are 1.3 million transit per day, let alone people. Wikipedia isn't a reliable source.
My workplace is isolated but there are thousands of workers around and hardly any transit. There's a 6-lane boulevard though, and they destroyed a foot bridge over highway 20 to make room for a new car lane. Montreal compares well to the rest of North America but that's like being best of the worst. It's not that great when you live outside the metro zone.
My workplace is isolated but there are thousands of workers around and hardly any transit. There's a 6-lane boulevard though, and they destroyed a foot bridge over highway 20 to make room for a new car lane. Montreal compares well to the rest of North America but that's like being best of the worst. It's not that great when you live outside the metro zone.
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08-15-13, 08:23 PM
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Lets stop with the generalities. This Canuk drives a bike to work, doesn't own a car, and my hydro bill for the entire year last year was $700 - which includes hot water and heating. If you're doing better than that and live where there's snow - I'll be impressed.
08-15-13, 09:31 PM
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Most cyclists who use bright lights aim them reasonably. As in most other cases, demand for regulation isn't driven by the acts of a reasonable majority, but of an irresponsible minority.
08-15-13, 10:10 PM
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Nope - Montreal has one of the best transit systems in the world. As far as I know the only one that might be better in Canada is in Toronto and I'd rather live here. And no - I still don't believe that you and the thousands of people that work around you find it faster to walk 17kms every day than to use any other means available. I've been in Montreal 40 years in 7 different municipalities abd never heard of anything even remotely like that.
08-15-13, 11:24 PM
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08-16-13, 04:25 AM
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08-16-13, 09:09 AM
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Nope - Montreal has one of the best transit systems in the world.
08-16-13, 09:59 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_by_ridership
but not so good for Western (EU or NA or SA) Western standards or Worldwide standards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_s...assenger_rides
Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City were all quite impressive for different reasons.
08-16-13, 10:02 AM
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