Re: [Debconf-discuss] Zagreb <--> Banja Luka
Hi,
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> That being the case, how about if we announce it something like this:
>
> =-=-=-=-
> There is a regular public bus service (~every 2hrs) from Zagreb to
> Banya Luka, so this is probably the best place to travel via, for both
> train and air travellers.
>
> If that's not good enough for you, feel free to make your own plans,
> but note that others have been looking for alternative routes, and
> most have concluded that alternatives are not better (Hint: the useful
> trains are slower and less frequent than the busses, and the
> alternative airports have significantly worse public transport)
>
> If you insist on making you own arrangements despite this advice, that
> is of course your choice, but you might want to read the wiki pages
> [Travel-Arriving] that include the information that's been discovered
> by those who have already tried -- please update the wiki if you
> succeed in finding a good route, and more importantly, fix the wiki so
> that it would have stopped you wasting your time once you fail.
>
> Regardless of what you decide, please add yourself to the
> [arrivals/departures] page -- if you're flying into Zagreb, this will
> allow us to determine the busy periods, and lay on extra busses -- if
> you're going off-piste and doing something like flying elsewhere and
> hiring a car, it will allow others to get in touch with you for a car
> share, say.
>
> Obviously, if you're about to book, check for times that are already
> busy, and try to make similar arrangements, since that will ensure
> that you're in a cluster that will be large enough to justify a bus.
>
> If you're uncertain, put a provisional entry in the wiki by recording
> the flight/train number as "UNBOOKED" as that will allow all the
> undecided to settle on big groups (if you do this, remember to update
> things when you actually book -- we'll not plan busses on the strength
> of unbooked entries)
> =-=-=-=-
>
> Do you think that would help?
>
> We should perhaps use something a bit better than that wiki page for
> recording the arrival/departure times, since it's going to be chaos at
> busy times, and someone's bound to screw up and delete half of it while
> trying to sort it into chronological order.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
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I like this plan so much, i think we should use it! (Adnan?)
I am sorry that i couldn't be more involved in this, and it's a shame
(for the local team) that somebody not local managed to do this on
their own.
Thank you Philip!
Velimir
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