Roundup: Articles From Around the Web
Here are some posts from around the web that I thought you may find interesting. Let me know if there is anything good I missed. Email me anything awesome that you find, or write, at Mark@milestomemories.com.
Articles
Straight to the Points Premium Award Alert Service
Our buddy Spencer finally launched his premium flight award service at Straight to the Points. Many of you are a part of his free newsletter I am sure but he just launched a premium service that comes with extra bells and whistles. The nice thing is your Amex Platinum $30 PayPal credit can knock the cost down even further. Spencer will be on the MtM Podcast next week to talk about about this and all things miles, points and travel next week.
The year of the mattress run: top-tier status in 6 programs in 48 nights – Frequent Miler
There are so many elite status opportunities this year it is crazy. I have written quite a bit on how to reach Hyatt Globalist cheaply and even with just one credit card welcome offer. Ryan shared his experience getting Hilton Diamond in just a few nights as well. Then Marriott launched their status promotion…and you get the point. Nick does a good job of pulling all of that together for you.
Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées set for green transformation – CNN Travel
Looks like it will be beautiful.
Conclusion
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The plan is to turn the Champs-Elysees into a four lane road? That’s like making the Golden Gate bridge into a one lane passage each way. It truly does look lovely but they somehow neglect to explain how they intend to solve the gigantic traffic congestion problem this will cause. I live in a city that has done similar “traffic calming” projects that are eco friendly and frankly every single instance has sucked pretty badly. That’s in a small city so I can’t even fathom how the French plan on wishing away the monumental problem they’re inventing. It’ll be interesting to see, in any case.
Great for people walking around and terrible for anyone commuting 🙂
Hopefully they have something figured out to divert the traffic for sure.
I agree. Proponents always raise the ideal: turn the city into the city you want to live in (more green, more bicycle path, less road)… I’m not sure what is the proper timeline to judge these changes (10+ years?) Because the interim is always horrible. You basically replace necessary traffic lanes into useless spaces that no one uses…