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From: Mark Brader on 17 May 2007 05:08
Steven Scharf:
> I notice that the Quebec RTC site is only in French. I thought Canada
> had a law that everything needed to be in both French and English.

There's true for matters of federal jurisdiction, which would not
include a city transit web site. Quebec's policy is that French is
the official language of the province.
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From: James Robinson on 17 May 2007 05:36
SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote:

> I notice that the Quebec RTC site is only in French. I thought Canada
> had a law that everything needed to be in both French and English.

The official language of the Province of Quebec is French, but they will
tolerate some services in English. There is a portion of the RTC site in
English, likely to cater to tourists:

http://www.rtcquebec.ca/francais/new_customer_/a_new_customer.html

From: Doug Smith W9WI on 17 May 2007 08:19
On Thu, 17 May 2007 06:46:32 +0000, Alan Pollock wrote:

>> There were plenty of independent hotel shuttles. Same kind of vehicle as
>> used for a hotel-owned shuttle but you bought tickets (kinda like a bus)
>> and they stopped at multiple hotels.
>
> That's what I took to the Strat when I was there a few months ago. On the way
> back we took a cab for around 8 bucks. Had I known I wouldn't have bothered
> with the Omnibus, which seemed to stop at every hotel in town before hitting
> the Strat. Bus took 45 minutes, cab took under 10.

At least with the line I used, you can buy a round-trip ticket. For some
reason they wanted 24 hours advance notice of your return trip. (?! - I
can MAYBE understand that if you're at some tiny place halfway to Pahrump,
but for a place on the Strip, why?) Took about 20 minutes, could be
better, could be worse. Same hotel.


From: sechumlib on 17 May 2007 08:43
On 2007-05-17 04:47:36 -0400, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> said:

> I notice that the Quebec RTC site is only in French. I thought Canada
> had a law that everything needed to be in both French and English.

Not in Quebec.

From: Stephen Sprunk on 17 May 2007 09:39
"Doug Smith W9WI" <w9wi(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.05.16.15.21.53.758337(a)invalid.nospam...
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:40 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
>>>What about airport to hotel service provided by hotel vans?
>>>In many major cities those exist.
>>
>> Are there any cities at all where those don't exist?

Other than Vegas, you have to get pretty far down on the population scale
before they disappear. However, there's lots of places where the shuttles
only show up if you call and can take 30+ minutes. Also, the shuttles are
usually only to hotels located immediately outside the airport, not hotels
near the business districts or residential areas.

> Las Vegas?
>
> Seriously, I didn't see many when I was there a few weeks
> ago. There may have been one or two hotels represented.
>
> There were plenty of independent hotel shuttles. Same kind
> of vehicle as used for a hotel-owned shuttle but you bought
> tickets (kinda like a bus) and they stopped at multiple hotels.

That drives me nuts every time I go there. You'd think that, at the rates
those hotels charge, they could spring for a bus that dropped by the airport
periodically (and didn't force people to wait 30 minutes for departure) to
improve customer service.

DFW has similar shared shuttles for most of the nearby hotels, but they're
free for the passengers and pretty quick. You just call the hotel and the
next shuttle passing by (there's one every few minutes) will pick you up
outside your gate.

> The Monorail would be an excellent solution except it doesn't
> go to the airport. Gee, I wonder why not?<g>...

Probably for the same reason that the NY subway doesn't go to LGA: every
time it's proposed, the cabbies strike. Many airports that do have transit
add stiff fees onto the fare at that station.

The Vegas casinos would also have problems if most arrivals were via the
monorail; typically the station is in the far back of the hotel and the
lobby is at the far end. They'd need to put in a second rear lobby, or move
the main one, if they wanted to keep people happy.

S

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