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You can take a Greyhound (1-800-231-2222) or Amtrak (1-800-872-7245, www.Amtrak.com  ). We're on Amtrak's Texas Eagle Route, with connections from LA and San Antonio. If you drive your own vehicle, we are about 2 miles off of I-10, Speedway exit to 4th Avenue for our venue at the YWCA, or to Euclid for the dorms. For flights, there is  * Air Tucson <http://airtucson.com/> Fare Finders

• *Tucson International Airport tucsonairport.org

Airlines that service the Tucson International Airport:

• America  West 1-800-235-9292
  http://www.americawest.com 

• American http://www.AA.com 1-800-433-7300

• Continental (800) 523-3273

• Delta (800) 221-1212 or (800) 325-1999

• Frontier http://www.frontierairlines.com 1-800-432-1359

• Northwest http://www.nwa.com 1-800-225-2525

• Southwest http://www.southwest.com  (800) 435-9792

• United http://www.united.com 1-800- united-1

Another option is flight into the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, which is a major hub, and a 2 hour, $30 shuttle to Tucson, that comes right to the edge of campus. Arizona Shuttle Service <http://www.arizonashuttle.com> from PHX / SkyHarbor to campus 1-800-888-2748.

Arizona Stagecoach <http://www.roadrunnerhostel.com> is the shuttle from Tucson Intl to campus. And, as I said, SunTran bus for $1 takes you to campus.  Transfer at 6th St, to go W to within a short block of the dorm. Or catch a CatTran (free). Or walk across the campus. From the Tucson airport, there is regular <http://www.suntran.com> 

SunTran bus service from 4:49am to 7:19pm, every half hour on weekdays, on the hour on weekends. $2 buys a Day Pass, or $1 a one way. Take the #6 bus to campus, with a stop (but no bus change) downtown. There are also some hotel shuttles, or the on-call shuttle is $18 each way, or cabs typically run $30. We may be able to arrange some volunteer pick-ups.  

Transportation services around Tucson

Public Transportation: SunTran. $2 buys a SunTran Day Pass, or $1 a one way. The buses are air conditioned, accessible (incl wheelchairs), and have bike racks on the outside front. They run on 20 min/ half hour schedule on weekdays, on the half/ hour schedule on weekends.  The only trolley line in the city runs from campus to 4th Avenue, effectively connecting those delegates who stay in the dorm to the  convention site. 

Taxis are on call, but not often on prowl. ****Our favorite is Yellow Cab, 624-6611, with Green Party member Chuck Irwin at the wheel.*** 

Everything is in walking distance for healthy, able individuals.  Bicycles can be rented for $40/day from <http://www.fairwheelbikes.com/> FairWheels, which is close to campus, and on a bus route (bus bike holders are in the cow-catch position). There are bike lanes, and drivers are used to bicyclists in this area of town. We have been rated as "bike friendly" by national bicyclist organizations. 

Walkers and bicyclists should be aware of weather as a factor. Always carry water and rehydrate. By the end of July, we'll be in the monsoons, or Chubascos. The typical pattern is afternoon rain, hard, welcome, cooling, cleaning the dust that you didn't even notice off of everything the eye sees, and making the air taste sweet. We've been in drought times, brought on by global warming, so the weather patterns that have held for centuries-- perhaps millennia-- are askew. But this is what we expect.

The temperatures will likely dance on both sides of 100, with a dip down to the 70's in the night. No joke. Natives adapt. 

And there are several car rental outfits, should people have special needs, or want to tour the area's rich ecological diversity. Enterprise Car Rental (1-800-736-8222) is just a few blocks from our venue, and several others are at the Airport. There are also numerous local tour companies.

Meeting Venue

The meeting location is at the Historic YWCA Building, within 4 blocks of the University of Arizona. The YWCA building is currently owned by a private individual, who rents to theatre groups, the Audubon Society, private counselors and acupuncturists, the YWCA, the Sonoran Desert Protection Coalition, and to groups who meet there, such as the Green Party of Pima County, the Sierra Club, etc. 

It will be a delight to support, and interact with, a Green friendly venue that includes: Audubon Society Gift Shop, ZUZI's Theater, Desert Archeology, the Paulo Freire Freedom School, the Environmental Education Exchange, the YWCA of Tucson, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters, the Sky Island Alliance, ArtsReach, Voices for Education / Arizona Children First, IATSE Local 415 - Stage Hands Union, the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, the Sierra Club, the US Fish & Wildlife Service / Sonoran Joint Venture, the Friends of Saguaro National Park, and Tucson CSA - Community Supported Agriculture.