Hello Folks,
We're looking for some motivated volunteers to contribute more information to the transportation section of our wiki for folks attending the conference from out of town. http://opensourcebridge.org/2011/wiki/Main_Page
There's a page now on the wiki called “Getting Around Portland,” which doesn't point to much right now, and we could really use your help. http://opensourcebridge.org/2011/wiki/Getting_Around_Portland
We would like to see this expanded to include more links, like bike culture and Tri-Met, the various mobile apps for public transit and traffic or GPS guides, the tourist info center at Pioneer courthouse square, Zipcar, and any other alternative means of transport championed in our city.
People who are alternative transportation advocates are encouraged to take point and contribute to this. If you're active in groups like Shift, BTA, Sprockets, etc., please contribute that info to these wiki links. Also, as our conference coincides with the last week of Pedalpalooza, it might be good to mention some of those links, their calendar and the rides.
If you're interested, let us know you're working on it and contributing so we can coordinate efforts efficiently. And thank you for contributing and helping make the experience of our traveling Open Source Bridge guests a great one.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
— Faddah Wolf
Volunteer with Open Source Bridge
Hacker Lounge & Logisitics Assistant
Open Source Bridge - June 21 - 24, 2011 @ The Eliot Center
(503) 449-0531 - iPhone
@yuetsu on twitter
The down side is that most of this magic is totally inoperable for
C-Tran - there you have to go to the C-Tran web site and search, read
PDFs, etc.
I'll pass this on to Michael Anderson of Portland Afoot and see if he
has any suggestions beyond Google.
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The down side is that most of this magic is totally inoperable for
C-Tran - there you have to go to the C-Tran web site and search, read
PDFs, etc.
I've added what I know to the wiki page. I'll pass this on to Michael
Anderson of Portland Afoot and see if he has any suggestions beyond
Google.
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Erdos
Quoting Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf <faddah...@gmail.com>:
Big Pink Sightseeing Trolley Tours A hop-on, hop-off tour that offers sightseers an easy way to see the city’s major, mainstream attractions. One dollar from each ticket will go to breast cancer research, thus the pink. The route begins at Pioneer Courthouse Square and visits, among other stops, the South Park Blocks, the Oregon Zoo, the Chinese Garden, RiverPlace, OMSI and Salmon Springs. The trolleys run from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and serve each stop every half hour, thus the loop needs to be as geographically compact as possible. Cost is $24 a person. Telephone (503) 241-7474.
while he can deliver if you guys make up a list, it is a short walk
from the CC to his shop and due to the variety of bike types available
it is definitely superior to send folks over there so they can get
exactly the right bike. does require a modest amount of motivation,
but it's a lot easier to organize: "walk over here when you have time,
come away with a bike, which you can return the same way."
hey faddah,
i did a 15-minute edit on the wiki. if you were clever, you'd head
down to the portland building and up to the pbot bike office and pick
up a stack of their free maps. they have city-wide bike maps that
fold up to credit card size, as well as larger-scale maps of the
convention-center/downtown area that would be handy to provide to
folks. did i mention they are free for the asking?
then you could mention them in the wiki. i didn't do it because i
don't have time to make a delivery run =)
Thanks everyone for your ideas, and thanks Troy for doing a bit of research.
We haven't had a large demand for bike rentals in either of the
previous two years, so we're not going to spend resources trying to
facilitate pre-orders. However, I would love to see this info added to
the wiki. And, if someone wants to step up and volunteer to be the
lead on facilitating bike rentals during the conference, let me know.
We can then direct anyone who needs help with this to you.
Thanks,
Christie
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Not sure if this was a typo, but the conference isn't at the
convention center. The public transit suggestions at eliot center's
web site aren't entirely clear since they say streetcar stop is 10th
and jefferson though they mean the art museum stop.
http://eliotcenterportland.org/contact/directions-a-parking
Definitely within the free downtown transit zone.
And Rose Festival should be over by then.
Google maps is generally well-integrated with iphone as well.
Marccela
— faddah
I added some stuff though I noticed the attendee page had some
incomplete info about transit that would be nice to edit or at least
give the link to our page for--can we edit that too?
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