LBNL Radiance Workshop Travel Information

Getting into Berkeley from SFO airport:

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If you are arriving at SFO, you can take BART (our subway system) from the airport into downtown Berkeley station, $5.15 one way. Information on BART here, http://www.bart.gov/

You will have to transfer trains at least once, twice during the weekends and off-hours. Travel time would be about an hour. If you want a taxi from BART to your accommodations, you can find them parked along Center Street near the Washington Mutual Bank.

Alternatively, you can use private shuttles/vans. Follow the signs when leaving airport. Shuttles take you from airport to hotel (or the LBL front gate if you happen to be arriving on the day of workshop), costs around $20/person. Travel time varies depending on how many other passengers are in the van with you, who's getting dropped off first, etc.

Taxis are available near the airport terminals, prices vary, but they are not cheap!

Getting into Berkeley from OAK airport:

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If riding public transportation, check out http://www.flyoakland.com/bart_airbart.shtml

Shuttles also available, follow signs in the airport.

Getting around in Berkeley:

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If you are arriving in Berkeley by BART, you can use the following website to figure out how to reach your hotel.

http://www.transitinfo.org/cgi-bin/taketransit

Click on the oval green button. You can of course also use http://www.mapquest.com/.

There is also a free night time shuttle service run by UC Berkeley. http://public-safety.berkeley.edu/pstmaps/index.html. More information below.

Finding your way up to LBL:

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LBL operates a shuttle service to bring employees and guests up the Lab from various points around the UC campus and downtown Berkeley. Allow 20 minutes to make a complete trip. Here is more information on the offsite shuttle and the route map.

http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Facilities/Support/Busses/off-site.html

By now you should have received print-able LBL shuttle bus passes in your email. Carry the pass with you and show it to the driver while boarding and let him/her know you are coming up for a conference. You may also be asked to show an ID. Get off the shuttle at the Bldg 65 stop (first stop after passing the LBL gate) and board the onsite shuttle. http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Facilities/Support/Busses/on-site.html

!! Pay attention, this is tricky !!

For the Monday and Tuesday tutorials, ask the driver to make a stop at Bldg 90, meet on the 3rd floor in room 3148. For the Monday "Applying New Features of Radiance 3.5" talk by Greg Ward, ask the driver to make a stop at Bldg 90, meet on the third floor in room 3075.

For Wednesday tutorials, ask the driver to make a stop at Bldg 70, meet on the 3rd floor in room 3377. For Thursday and Friday seminars, ask the driver to make a stop at Bldg 70, meet on the 3rd floor in room 3377.

Other info:

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We will walk/shuttle over as a group to the LBL cafeteria for lunches.

http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/cafeteria/

Each participant will be given a meal voucher good for combined items up to $8. If you want to eat more than $8, you have to cover the difference yourself. If you are adventurous and want to check out the multi-cultural culinary offerings (5 days of cafeteria food may be a bit much...), you are free to take the offsite shuttle and check out the restaurants on Northside, get off at the Euclid stop. Make sure to leave enough time to catch the shuttle back up!

There are many restaurants around Berkeley and LBL happens to have a nicely put together guide of many of these:

http://www-rnc.lbl.gov/Restaurants/Restaurants.html

If you are looking for cheap eats for dinner (aimed more at students) head down to Telegraph Ave or Durant Ave on the Southside of campus.

FREE internet access in the libraries on Campus! You can use it to check email and surf the net, but no MS word or ppt on those computers. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Computers.html

For getting around on public buses:

http://www.actransit.org/riderinfo/busfares.wu

NO day passes, no savings for buying multiple passes. And just to warn you, the buses are only sporadically on time!

Maps of Berkeley and surrounding areas:

We have put together the attached PDF map of the UC campus surroundings.

http://public-safety.berkeley.edu/pstmaps/index.html

UC Berkeley operates a night time shuttle service for students and the community, with some routes running well past midnight. Click on the BearTransit Night Safety Shuttles Map to see the routes. The service is aimed at students so the routes tend to wind around campus and the dormatories. The shuttle is free. More maps:

http://public-safety.berkeley.edu/pstmaps/media/bike.pdf

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/

Taxi phone numbers:

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/aboutberkeley/taxis.html

Shuttle phone numbers:

http://www.flyoakland.com/shuttle.shtml

"Cool things to do" in Berkeley:

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/coolthings/

And finally, be careful when you cross the streets! Drivers don't always stop!

Sorry, the state of California bans smoking in all public spaces. That means no smoking allowed in restaurants, on trains, buses...

If you have any emergency, here are our phone numbers:

Greg Ward (510) 526-0329 - home

Judy Lai (510) 486-4781 - work

If your emergency is you cannot get past the LBL gate (the driver won't drive you up or the guards at the gate won't let you through), you can call

JeShana Bishop (510)4 86-4344 -work

And she can confirm that you are coming for official business.

If you are not in the (510) area code, you will have to dial 1(510) in order to make the call. Public phones range in price from $.25 to $.55 cents to start, and that will give you around 3 minutes of talk time for calls within the same area code. For calls outside of an area code, expect to throw in at least $.75 to start.