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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