Fwd: Lisbon public transit tips

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Patrick H. Lauke


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> From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
> Date: 17 September 2016 at 18:23:02 BST
> To: Steve Faulkner <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <plauke@paciellogroup.com>, Michiel Bijl <mbijl@paciellogroup.com>, Ian Pouncey <ipouncey@paciellogroup.com>, Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@paciellogroup.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Lisbon public transit tips
> Reply-To: tink@tink.uk
> 
> More TPAC travel tips.
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Lisbon public transit tips
> Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:16:57 +0000
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> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:16:22 +0100
> From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
> To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
> CC: w3c-css-wg@w3.org <w3c-css-wg@w3.org>
> 
> - there's a paper/cardboard RFID card called via viagem that costs
>   50 cents (and which the ticket machines happily sell you if you
>   don't have one already).  But it can only hold one type of ticket
>   at a time.
> 
> - therefore, the ticket type you probably want (unless you're
>   buying an exact ticket for what you're about to do) is called
>   "zapping", which means putting cash on it in 3/5/10/15/20 euro
>   increments, and which also gives a discount on the fares.
>   (Bus/metro/tram fare is 1.25; I think train fare is a little
>   more.)
> 
> - I think buses/trams validate tickets on board, trains validate at
>   a little red post at the station unless it's a major terminal
>   which has fare gates, and metro at fare gates.  I think it's
>   validate-on-enter only, except for the trains and metro.  Though
>   I think it's more complicated if you take a tram/bus across
>   zones.  But I'm not 100% sure though.
> 
> - there aren't enough ticket machines at the airport metro station,
>   so there was a big line, particularly for the "I don't already
>   have a via viagem card" pool of machines.  (They're separate at
>   the airport to appease the locals, I guess.)
> 
> - Trains and metro drive on the left, so stand on the correct
>   platform.  Buses and trams drive on the right, with traffic
>   (obviously).  (And the direction signage at the train stations
>   can be a bit confusing since the sign to tell you that you need
>   to cross to the other platform doesn't really have an arrow; it
>   just says that if you want the other direction you want track
>   [2], which could be misinterpreted to mean that this is track
>   [2].)
> 
> - The buses and trams between Belém and the city center seem to be
>   pretty overloaded with tourists on weekends; that's a bit less of
>   a problem for trains (which run every 20 minutes on weekends, go
>   a lot faster than the buses/trams, but which are *not* suggested
>   by Google Maps.)  They can be useful for getting between Belém or
>   Alcantara station (if you're staying out west of the center near
>   the meeting venue) and Cais do Sodre station (which is walking
>   distance from many of the attractions in the city center, and on
>   the metro).
> 
> -David
> 
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