Re: [105attendees] YUL ground transportation, with kids

Thanks all.

Due to a "travel document misunderstanding", I will be participating 
remotely until Wednesday. Guess it was a good thing I was lazy about 
buying up social tickets. :^) Sticking with the 747 bus seems good; it 
does not sound like there is any meaningfully faster or safer option.

Sean

On 7/20/2019 9:23 PM, Vittorio Bertocci wrote:
> Just landed - FYI: it’s probably because of the hour, but the Uber 
> estimates are in the order of the 25 minutes for the driver to even 
> arrive. Also, the first driver cancelled, delaying things further. 
> Make sure you have a lot of battery left :)
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 23:11 Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com 
> <mailto:chromatix99@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > On 19 Jul, 2019, at 7:37 pm, Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com
>     <mailto:dev%2Bietf@seantek.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Kids 6-11 ride FREE on public transit on weekends through August
>     27! (Kids 5 and under are always free.)
>
>     Not immediately obvious from outside Montreal, the $10 ticket
>     required for the 747 bus is actually a 24-hour pass to the entire
>     STM system, including buses and metro.  So it makes sense to take
>     the 747 into the city, then another bus (if necessary) to lessen
>     the walking distance.  The 747's first stop out of the airport is
>     at a metro station.
>
>     Elsewhere in the system, you can buy single tickets for $3.50
>     which are valid for a shorter time.  Those are adult fares; there
>     is a child/OAP discounted fare as well as the the free-children
>     allowance mentioned.
>
>     As I'm staying elsewhere than the hotel, I found that the normal
>     city buses are not as well set up for heavy luggage as the 747
>     is.  If you can't easily lift a suitcase on top of the wheel-cover
>     luggage racks, you'll need to hold onto it by your seat.  But if
>     the 747 gets you close enough to walk comfortably, it's a good
>     option by itself.
>
>     Small children normally requiring an adapter seat in a car don't
>     need one on a bus or metro.  Just have them sit on a parent's lap
>     or, if they're old enough to make this awkward, on their own
>     seat.  Intercity buses usually have seatbelts; the city and
>     airport buses do not.
>
>     I have absolutely zero experience with Uber…
>
>      - Jonathan Morton
>
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