Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by triangleman on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:33PM
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I heard from someone who visited Paris that cleaning crews would come around every night with water hoses, so that may be why you saw such a lax attitude to waste. Did you see any of that?
Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by shivsta on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:59PM
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I think this is a chicken and egg problem here. Coming from the US, it's my opinion that the pet owners should be responsible for their own pet's waste, not the government.
Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by Idontagree on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:34PM
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It's annoying, and possible a real problem if you neighborhood does have that much traffic, but it's something that should be solved at the city level, maybe don't do construction in multiple places that causes a major jam. Either way, I seriously doubt I'll ever stop driving on a street because it's bothering the residents.
Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by pilsetnieks on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:51PM
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France is much more than Paris, and even in Paris you cannot see the dog shit that has been cleaned up.
Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war
by mikeash on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:30PM
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Everywhere else I've been, you can't see the dog shit at all, because it all gets cleaned up.
I lived in France for several years and overall it was great, but this part puzzled and somewhat annoyed me.
Yes, but it's nuanced. Own the streets in order to control the environment of our mini-castles (our homes), but know that we don't have a legal basis to stand on.
Neighborhood streets weren't organized in a manner to accommodate high traffic patterns, and it ends up being a real issue for local residents. It's not too much of a stretch to be upset that your once quiet neighborhood is now a major traffic jam because of a mobile app.
> It's like having their cake (single-family home with a parking space) and eating it too (avoiding traffic nuisance which they impose on others).
Multi-family units with multi parking spaces cause significantly more traffic issues than single family home.
> As a Frenchman...and it's my right to use it to cut traffic as I see fit.
Is this why people in Paris don't clean up after their dogs on sidewalks? I know Parisians don't represent all the french, but it definitely was a culture shock seeing all that excrement.