[CoLoCo] Aaron is coming to town

[Neal McBurnett]

I put in a vote in general for places near public transport.

The Panera in Longmont is good, and has easy parking.  Downtown is
great for transit - bus or light rail.  It is so nice to be able to
hack on my olpc on the way to the meeting.  Driving is so 20th century
:-)

-Neal

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:38:18PM -0500, TheZorch wrote:
> Kevin Fries wrote:
> 
>     All good points, Kevin, but a couple thoughts. Having gone to a
>     downtown meeting once, I won't be doing it again. I had to pay $10 and
>     fight a ton of traffic because of a rockies game. True, we can
>     schedule around them but downtown is still too much of a hassle for
>     me. I may fight it for a release party but that's about it - not that
>     my being there is all that important.
> 
>     Yep, pretty much my argument, but the meeting is now supposed to be in 7 hours, and nobody has picked a place?
> 
>     Anyone, other than Downtown?
> 
> 
> Don't get me STARTED about Downtown!  Have any of you been to Washington, D.C.?
>   You'd go insane trying to navigate the streets.  I don't drive but you roomy
> takes me everywhere in his van and the streets of D.C., even downtown, are so
> twisted and convoluted its crazy.  Basically, the street layout is a throwback
> to the days when the city was designed to thwart invaders.  In the War of 1812
> the British burned down the Capital.  Not only that, but the Beltway is a
> nightmare.  They fixed the twisted mess known as the Mixing Bowl but the
> Beltway is still a nightmare to travel on.  Its not designed to handle the
> massive amount of traffic that goes in and out of the capital each day.  It was
> built during and era when there weren't as many cars on the road, and upgrades
> to the Beltway are slow and mired in red-tape.  Then, there's the Metro.
> 
> The Metro as a whole is a system of bus routes (they also work closely with
> regional county buses in Maryland & Virginia, and use the same electronic fare
> card together) and subway rail system in and around the metropolitan
> Washington, D.C. area.  The Metrobus coverage is actually pretty darn good
> around here, but buses are subject to the same traffic problems as cars though
> most of Metro's buses are natural gas hybrids and they are investing in clean
> bio-diesel models.  The subway rail system is somewhat reliable but its an old
> system in need of upgrades.  They are working on that but the system is
> strapped for cash and thus the upgrades are slow.  The whole Washington, D.C.
> area would grind to a screeching halt if the Metrorail system were to
> collapse.  The roads and Beltway can't handle the capacity, and can barely
> handled the capacity that's on them right now.  Matrorail is the release valve
> that keeps D.C. from blowing up, but if that gets clogged the area is in for a
> whole world of hurt.  Oh, and parking in downtown D.C. .... mwaahahahahahahaa
> ... you gotta be joking!  Parking ... in downtown Washington, D.C. ... man
> that's a riot.  So, don't complain too much about downtown Denver because there
> are worse places, much worse.
> 
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