 | | RE: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Ralph Hempel
| | | | Wait... For those of us staying at the Marriot, ther should be a free shuttle from the airport, right? I'll check up on this and let you know... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | There may or may not be a free shuttle but my advice is learn the T. Even if you're only in town for a weekend, it's a much better way to go. Plus the trains are much tighter headings than the 1/2 hour heading a shuttle is likely to be on. A cab (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Frank Filz
| | | | | | (...) I'm not sure what street the bridge is, but it isn't Memorial Ave. The T of course doesn't go through the Sumner tunnel. And give Larry a point for accuracy... The tunnel from downtown to Logan is the Callahan Tunnel (well of course there's (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | | (...) You're right. It's the Longfellow bridge. I may have the haymarket part wrong but there is a big bridge across teh charles that feeds into memorial drive and main street. It also carries the red line T across. (...) I didn't say it did. It has (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Frank Filz
| | | | | | | (...) Haymarket is correct, though I'm not sure that you actually go through it, but you certainly go right by it. Of course all these driving directions are sort of moot. If you're an out of towner, you probably don't want to drive (hey, even I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | RE: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Ralph Hempel
| | | | | (...) <snipped out more gory transit details...> (...) Hmmm, Larry does not live in Boston, and yet he is intimately familiar with the transit system. Coincidence, I think not. The more likely explanation is that he is obsessed with trains, and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Help me plan for Mindfest. —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Well, I WILL admit I had a mockup of a green line car partially completed but I just could not get a center pivot that looked good from the outside, worked, and would at least allow a minifig (turned sideways so he was only 1 stud wide) to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains)
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