RE: Sevilla local transport information request

[Tim Ney <ten gnome org>]

Daniel wrote very basic questions that it would be useful to repeat
(with Javier's answers on the Travel Section of guadec.org) -- several
other people, who do not follow the lists, have asked the same things.

tim

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 20:18, Daniel Pisano wrote:

> - The airport is in vicinity of the quarter. It appears to be even
> walking distance, or is it?

> - How do I get from the airport to both the conference center and
> downtown with public transportation?

> What do I need to know and ask for if I wanted to get a week pass or
> similar for public transportation around Seville? What are the fares?
> 
> - How do I get from downtown _to_ the conference center on the days of
> the conference?
> 
> - Where the [expletive] is this conference center?

> Do I really have to make all these
> assumptions and guess from a poorly-compressed illustrative map from 
> an apartment website?

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 16:04, Javier Linares wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > http://www.sol.com/apartamentos/bib-rambla/images/mapa.jpg
> >
> > This map is taken from the website for Apartamentos Bib Rambla, who
> > happen to offer lodging almost in the same street as the conference
> > center if I got that right.
> 
> It's a conference center but actually it's not the conference center
for the
> Guadec. You must look for the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros
(Engineering
> High School), which is in the west part of Sevilla.
> 
> >From those appartaments to the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros you
need to
> take, at least, two buses and you'll expend more than 50 minutes.
> 
> Please, have a look to this map (the whole URL in one line, of
course):
>
http://callejero.lanetro.es/apps/lanetro/mapas/mapas.asp?id_via=2844&pais_ge
>
oc=ESPA%D1A&nombredevia=Cmno+De+los+Descubrimientos&numerovia=0&nombre_fiche
> ro=dc1sevilla&lite_provincia_geoc=Sevilla&lite_municipio_geoc=Sevilla
> 
> Just play a bit with the "less" button ;-)
> 
> > - The airport is in vicinity of the quarter. It appears to be even
> > walking distance, or is it?
> 
> Yes, if you sleep in those appartaments you'll be very near from the
Airport
> but a bit far to walk with all your stuff. And you could go to the
> conference center or downtown in buses 70 and C2. One single trip is
0,90 ?.
> You can buy 10 trips (4,50 ? with transfer and 3,80 ? without it).
> "Transfer" means that you can take another bus for free in 1 hour. You
can
> also have a 30 days ticket, for 26,00 ?, and it lets you travel during
the
> whole month for free. The most interesting: 1 day ticket 3,00 ? and 3
days
> ticket 7,00 ?. You can find more information about buses here:
> http://www.tussam.es/ (but I haven't found english version in this
website).
>