RE: [802SEC] Transportation to/from SFO to the Hyatt
Buzz,
The 802.16 web page for this meeting
<http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg26> has a few more details on this
topic:
"BART rail service between San Francisco AIrport (SFO) and downtown
San Francisco opened June 22
<http://www.bart.gov/news/features/news_8466.asp>. The Hyatt (at
Market and Drumm) is one block northeast on Market Street from
Embarcadero Station
<http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationGuide/stationOverview_EMBAR.asp>.
The scheduled trip time is 33 minutes on BART's Blue Line. The fare
is $4.70. For more details on BART connections at SFO, and to Oakland
International Airport (OAK), see the BART Airport Guide
<http://www.bart.gov/guide/airport/airport.asp>."
By the way, I don't think Rich Seifert was criticizing 802 for
meeting outside of San Francisco. What caught my attention was the
fact that 802 hasn't met in San Francisco (or anywhere in the Bay
Area) since its very first meeting, and that helps to add a nice
touch to the Ethernet 30th Anniversary event.
Roger
>Howard, Actually the Embarcadero BART station is 1 block from
>HR-SF, and, yes we are putting info on this and urging folks to
>forego the rental car in our next meeting update memo scheduled to
>go out tomorrow. :-)
>
>Thanx, Buzz
>Dr. Everett O. (Buzz) Rigsbee
>Boeing - SSG
>PO Box 3707, M/S: 7M-FM
>Seattle, WA 98124-2207
>(425) 865-2443 Fx: (425) 865-6721
>everett.o.rigsbee@boeing.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Howard Frazier [mailto:millardo@dominetsystems.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:00 PM
>To: stds-802-sec@ieee.org
>Subject: [802SEC] Transportation to/from SFO to the Hyatt
>
>
>
>The great thing is that with the new BART station at
>SFO, you don't need a rental car at all! If out of towners
>aren't aware of this, perhaps we should tell them. There
>is now a brand spanking new BART station at the San Francisco
>International Airport where you can board a train that will
>whisk you to the Embarcadero BART station in all of 30 minutes,
>for a one-way fair of $4.70. You can't travel between these
>two points cheaper or faster by any other means.
>
>The Embarcadero BART station is about 2 blocks from the hotel.
>
>For more info, see:
>
>http://www.bart.gov/
>
>Between BART, cable cars (the world's only municipal
>roller coaster) and taxis, most people will have no
>need for a rental car whatsoever, at least during the
>week of the meeting.
>
>Howard Frazier
>
>Rigsbee, Everett O wrote:
>
> > Roger, What Rich Seifert fails to note is that San Francisco
>
>> has been highly sought after as an 802 venue for the 20 years
>
>> I've been doing these meetings, but that until the 9/11 debacle
>
>> it was consistently too expensive to ever get selected as a venue
>
>>( >>$200/night). Parking a rental car in SF costs more than
>
>> renting the car in the first place. So thanx to the 9/11 travel
>
>> industry collapse, we finally got to an affordable (just barely)
>
>> deal for two SF meetings.
> >
> > Thanx, Buzz
> > Dr. Everett O. (Buzz) Rigsbee
> > Boeing - SSG
> > PO Box 3707, M/S: 7M-FM
> > Seattle, WA 98124-2207
> > (425) 865-2443 Fx: (425) 865-6721
> > everett.o.rigsbee@boeing.com
> >
> >