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The google maps biking overlay is fairly accurate. If you are looking at google maps in the lower left where it has a menu of layers, just click to open the options and select 'biking'.

The bubble popped in 2008 (or earlier) due in part to homeowners inability to refinance out of ARMs which reset to incredibly high interest rates or balloon payments, as well as the instability in major financial institutions caused by investments in credit default swaps (among other things). What trends are you seeing now that indicate a similar level of instability or "buble?" I am personally worried about the amount if investor properties, because it's deleterious to personal home ownership. I am also worried about the artificially low interest rates, because they allow people to "afford" monthly payments on homes whose overall price would have historically been out of their price range. This, in my opinion, is a major reason for the housing price inflation. I however, do not believe either issue is causing a bubble.

Interesting that in "Meta's" first consumer brand marketing campaign they use a work on permanent display at the Cleveland Museum of Art without any attribution. https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/meta-kicks-off-first-consumer-brand-marketing-campaign/ The work, by Henri Rousseau, is old enough that it is in the public domain. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.186

I mean, the canal is a man-made waterway, and as such it doesn't stay "watered" unless done so intentionally. I think the National Park purposefully doesn't water most sections within their boundaries for various reasons.

I find this interesting too. The US news reporting is certainly biased towards a total medal count, as apposed to a "Gold First" standard. This got me wondering how the US would fair under a couple of weighted ranking systems. First table using Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2 points, Bronze = 1 point. Seconds table using Gold = 5 points, Silver = 3 points, Bronze = 1 point. 3:2:1 5:3:1 Either way, as of the morning of 8/5 the US still has a nice lead, unless you subscribe to a Gold only standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_medal_table

Here's a decent video from a good youtube channel about it. Can you build main streets in the suburbs?

I believe what richNcincy means it that on round-abouts that have semi-truck traffic, the circle in the center isn't raised as high because the trucks literally don't have the turning radius necessary to do the loop, so they have to drive over part of that center embankment.

I'm not the person you asked this by my take is generally three fold: 1) People become blind to cars subtle violations of road rules, and learn to inherently ignore them. But bicycles, which are obviously far less common, violate rules in similar ways, it draws ones attention more. Although it isn't easy to study, it appears that cyclists and cars violate traffic laws at a similar rate - https://whyy.org/articles/cyclists-violate-traffic-law-no-more-than-drivers-new-data-shows/ 2) For some psychological reason, people prescribe ones cyclist, or a small number of cyclists bad behavior, to the entire group. I think most level headed people would agree this isn't fair or productive, and we certainly don't do this with car drivers. 3) The rules of the road were created for car traffic, and can often create dangerous situations for cyclists. In my opinion intersections are extremely dangerous for smaller, less visible cyclist, with cars often splitting off into two or three different lanes, going in different directions, and bottlenecking dangerously. My #1 priority in these situations, and when on the road in general, is my own safety, not textbook rule following, and not appeasing the anger of cars around me. As such, if splitting lanes seems safer, I may at times do that. If staying in the right turn only lane is safer I may do that even if going straight, etc. I rarely run red lights, but if its for my own safety I have.