Re: [Callers] Fuel-efficient dancing

[Martha Wild via Callers]

Well, at least I’ve got a full car-pool going up to English Country tonight! 4 
of us.
Martha


> On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Richard Hopkins via Callers 
>  wrote:
> 
> I share the concern about driving a lot to get to dance events.
> 
> FWIW:  The Concord Scout House is 0.6 miles from the Concord commuter rail 
> station, which has approximately hourly service (more frequent in rush hour) 
> to and from North Station in Boston and intermediate stops (including Porter 
> Square for the Red Line subway).  Last inbound train just before 11:30 pm.
> 
> By contrast, I can pretty easily get to dances in Burlington, VT, from my 
> home in Middlebury, VT, by public bus during rush hour, but there is no 
> return service late in the evening.   I need to be more diligent about 
> seeking people to carpool with, but not everyone wants to get to the dance as 
> early as the caller has to, nor stay till the bitter end.
> 
> Richard
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Re: [Callers] Fuel-efficient dancing

[Nick Cuccia via Callers]

On 10/7/19 5:43 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote:

>
> Looking forward to hearing other people's thoughts on this.
>
> Kalia Kliban in slightly-inaccessible Sebastopol, CA
>
I used to maintain BACDS's page describing how to get to (and, maybe,
from) BACDS dances ().  It was an example
of benevolent self interest -- at the time, I had neither car nor
drivers license, and transit was how I got to and from dances.  The page
can use a bit of polish (some of the restaurant options are no longer
around, and it's missing info for how to get to the Hayward contra or
San Jose First Unitarian dances).

At one point, I had prepared similar information for how to at least get
to NBCDS and NBCDS-adjacent dances (this was close to 20 years ago, so
the venues at that time would've been the Santa Rosa and San Rafael (in
the Masonic Hall) contras, plus the long-defunct contras in Sonoma,
Sebastopol, and St. Helena/Calistoga, and the long-defunct contra/family
dance in Fairfax).  I had provided them to NBCDS back then, but nobody
seemed interested, and I can't blame them; transit options in Marin and
Sonoma Counties (let alone Napa County) are extremely limited if you're
not within a mile of Golden Gate Transit's 101 bus lines, or the SMART
trains today.

Including transit and neighborhood guides (local restaurants and
watering holes, etc.) isn't a lot of work, but it does require someone
to do it, and that's always a challenge.  The same is true for
organizing carpooling, although there are many options
(www.groupcarpool.com and  www.ridesharing.com are a couple of examples)
for helping organize ridesharing that weren't around twenty or even ten
years ago.

--Nick (in even more inaccessible Merced, CA)

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