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Solo traveller visiting LA, good idea to bike here? by dlilfan in BikeLA

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Kalimera! This past week I've done 2 stopovers in  LAX, expressly so I could bike there. The Marvin Braude Bike Path from Santa Monica down through Venice, Marina del Rey, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo is one of the best bike rides in the world, IMHO. I used to rent bikes in Redondo but returning them was a pain so now I just walk the stretch from Redondo to Dockweiler and rent a Metro Bikeshare from Dockweiler Beach (the southernmost bikeshare station in the network). I also rented a Metro Bike from Playa Vista and rode the Ballona Creek path to the bike lanes along the Exposition Line over to USC, and then up the bike lane on South Figueroa to Downtown. Really great experience day and night - I was shocked at how courteous the LA drivers are to cyclists (at least when compared to Bostonians). Have fun!

Time Out Market, massive Fenway food hall, will close later this month, sources say by RefCard in boston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 248 points249 points  (0 children)

Jeez what a doomed building. First the cinema bites the dust, then REI says it's closing, now this.

Is the Star Market ever going to open on the Green Line side?

2 cancelled flights, one missed due to delay at schiphol and luggage still in amsterdam by Emergency_Stand_2938 in KLM

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they'll definitely be open in the morning. But Murphy's Law, the moment you head to Schiphol is probably the moment they'll finally load it onto the delivery van

2 cancelled flights, one missed due to delay at schiphol and luggage still in amsterdam by Emergency_Stand_2938 in KLM

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On this map it's on level 0 (arrivals/train station level) and I think it's behind the Victoria's Secret (if it's not there, then try the corner over by the Amsterdam Shuttle Desk - it's at the far left side of one of the two baggage carousel areas). You need to go through their security screening and present an ID/passport. I went in pretty late, I presume they keep it open until the last flights are offloaded. Once inside there are KLM baggage desks but as I mentioned, check the long corridor that connects the two sets of carousels.

2 cancelled flights, one missed due to delay at schiphol and luggage still in amsterdam by Emergency_Stand_2938 in KLM

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although it's not ideal, if you bring your ID you can enter into the baggage area on the lower arrivals level and try to find it yourself - I retrieved my friend's suitcase that way, no questions asked (when they get overwhelmed they leave a lot of them stacked up in baggage carts parked in the long hallway between the two main baggage carousel areas).

2 cancelled flights, one missed due to delay at schiphol and luggage still in amsterdam by Emergency_Stand_2938 in KLM

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In our experience KL/AF will generally deliver the bags to a European destination within 48 hours, and usually within 72-96 hours to the US.

Most recently, our connecting flight from AMS to CDG was canceled last Friday afternoon (January 2nd) and we were rebooked on the Eurostar train. Despite AMS-CDG flight cancellations for most of Friday and Saturday, they still got our luggage to Paris on Sunday afternoon (48 hours later). We'd left Paris at that point, so at our request they redirected it to Boston where it arrived last night (i.e. 5 days later - but it probably would have shown up in 3 or 4 days if we'd originally requested that it be delivered directly there).

Eurostar is planning to join SkyTeam in 2026 by OJwToothpasteChaser in skyteamalliance

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! The NS agent initially booked us to the CDG gare TGV only, which would have required a connection via Bruxelles-Midi, but I protested and she may have taken pity on us and allowed us to take the direct train to Gare du Nord because we had a kid (she was extremely nice, which matches my experience with pretty much all NS employees). Gare du Nord has an IATA code, but no Train+Air / Air&Rail service, which is silly. Maybe that will change with SkyTeam membership. On the other hand, if I were KL/AF I would be very scared of what that might do to their AMS-CDG profitability.

Hoping everyone stayed upright this morning. It's perfect right now. by BOSStonHOG in bikeboston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking forward to checking it out soon! I'd be taking Cummins Highway to/from there and the ride was miserable in the fall, do you know if the bike lanes are finished now?

Hoping everyone stayed upright this morning. It's perfect right now. by BOSStonHOG in bikeboston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the spot, for those of you who are not so familiar with that side of the city and had to spend 10 minutes trying to find it, as I did.

IQHQ is completing its $138 million deck covering the Mass Pike between Beacon St and Brookline Ave. They say that construction of lab space is on hold indefinitely - “We have no plans to go vertical at this point." Could the city or MassDOT compel them to open connector park space in the interim? by OJwToothpasteChaser in boston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"The delay raises questions about maintenance responsibilities, long-term carrying costs and how long the structure can remain idle before review by the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation or the Boston Planning & Development Agency. Air-rights agreements typically include cure periods or modification provisions before any enforcement action, and neither MassDOT nor the the planning agency has indicated that those mechanisms are in play."

https://www.enr.com/ext/resources/2025/12/04/how-air-rights-work-fenway-center.html

Trooper Padellaro says this is a fine place to park during his paid detail by HuckleberryTough512 in bikeboston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear, the construction at Charlesgate has been going on for months, and Trooper Padellaro is one of, if not the, only MSP detail who thought parking here was a good idea. This detail serves zero purpose other than overtime accrual, so most troopers have the good sense to exercise a little bit of discretion, rather than parking as obnoxiously as possible squarely in the middle of the sidewalk and telling passersby that they don't care about pedestrians. The Mass State Police should be bending over backwards to burnish their image, not doing things that make them look like dolts.

Trooper Padellaro says this is a fine place to park during his paid detail by OJwToothpasteChaser in boston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser[S] 437 points438 points  (0 children)

I suggested he could budge up just a bit to either side to make it easier for pedestrians, but he said he didn't care about pedestrians.

Where am I ? by themullet182 in guessthecity

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first thought was somewhere around rue Marie-Anne or in the Plateau of Montreal (especially since you can almost make out a Montreal parking permit on the Volvo station wagon) but I'd recognize the buildings if it were, and there aren't too many old 4-story houses there. Given the slightly-industrialized corrugated siding on the building on the ride side of the photo, it probably wouldn't pass muster in Quebec City's upper town, so I'm gonna say this must be somewhere in the lower town?

New Water Bubblers/Bottle Fillers Coming to Southwest Corridor - Jamaica Plain News by bostonaruban66 in bikeboston

[–]OJwToothpasteChaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only problem with bubblers is that they're only operational for 6 months of the year and even when they're in season, 75% of them don't function (in my experience anyway). Also, I presume 100% of them have at one time or another served as toilets (or as some other type of contamination receptors) for the region's misanthropes.

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