Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:28:30 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ride to Balticon Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> At 01:30 PM 5/23/04, Keith F. Lynch wrote: >At the meeting someone asked about getting a ride to Balticon. I >can't offer a ride, but I can offer advice on how to get there. > >Take the Metro to the Greenbelt station, at the end of the Green line. >Then take the B30 bus to the BWI airport's light rail station. (Don't >get off at the airline terminal.) Then take the light rail to the >Lexington Market station. You'll be one block west of the con hotel. > >The B30 bus runs every 40 minutes. (Metro and light rail run more >often.) It costs $1.15 if you get a free transfer when you enter >Metro, exact change required. See >http://www.wmata.com/metrobus/b30_brochure.cfm > >Alternatively, you can take a MARC train from DC's Union Station, but >that's more expensive, runs less often, and leaves you much further >from the con hotel. Unfortunately I'd first have to take a bus *to* the Greenbelt station, since I live north of there. And I'm not really mobile these days; busses and subways and just standing hurts. Anyone going up I 95 to Baltimore on Friday? Elspeth