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Oct28
What do you call a car park?
I find it curious that there are several words for a structure for storing cars while they are not in use.
In the UK this is a multi-storey car park or MSCP.
In German or Scandinavian regions of Europe, it tends to be a Parking-House (ParkHus).
In Canada, it's a Parkade.
What do you call it?
Apart, usually, from a blot on the landscape!
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Oct28
Why is Vancouver's evening peak peakier than the morning peak?
Apparently on the Canada Line automated light metro in Vancouver, the evening peak is much more peaked than the morning peak. Traffic in the evening peak hours is heavier and more concentrated than in the morning peak hours.
This isn't the experience in the UK - is it elsewhere, or is Vancouver unique?
What I'm used to is people all going to work at much the same time, so the morning peak is really confined to 2-3 hours. In the evening, some people rush straight home: others are delayed by meetings, the need to catch up or by socialising or shopping after work.
Is Vancouver the exception, or is it the UK?
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Oct28
Generosity overdone?
On a recent Air Canada flight, the cabin crew came round offering headsets.
When I said, "Yes, please" the response was, "Just one, sir?".
I did wonder where they thought I'd stowed my second head!
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