http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/05/griffith-announces-opening/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/05/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-3306 Some Observations at Griffith Observatory - Asymptotia Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:24:24 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/04/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-3306 [...] As you can see (from the image at the top of this post), the view from the roof is just spendid. The building is beautiful, the park is beautiful and the city looks beautiful from up here. They all deserve each other. I hope that the city’s people come to the park more, and to see the Observatory. Recall that they are not letting people drive up through the park, but instead they must drive to either the Zoo parking lot, or the Hollywood and Highland complex and take the specially provided bus up to the Observatory for $8.00. People are still unhappy about this, but they are expecting so much traffic and interest in the whole thing that they are doing it this way for several weeks. You also have to make reservations in this first several weeks. Personally, I’d like to see them keep something like this up. Why not only have buses coming up, and cut down on the number of cars driving up to the parking lot up there? I imagine that the people who want to drive up to the Observatory parking lot to hike from the nearby trailhead would be unhappy since it won’t be as convenient. I’m sure something could be worked out though. I worry that with the cafe and restaurant up there, the winding road up through the park will become a bit of a highway… Well, that is a discussion for another time. You can go to their website here for more information and to make reservations and the like. [...] [...] As you can see (from the image at the top of this post), the view from the roof is just spendid. The building is beautiful, the park is beautiful and the city looks beautiful from up here. They all deserve each other. I hope that the city’s people come to the park more, and to see the Observatory. Recall that they are not letting people drive up through the park, but instead they must drive to either the Zoo parking lot, or the Hollywood and Highland complex and take the specially provided bus up to the Observatory for $8.00. People are still unhappy about this, but they are expecting so much traffic and interest in the whole thing that they are doing it this way for several weeks. You also have to make reservations in this first several weeks. Personally, I’d like to see them keep something like this up. Why not only have buses coming up, and cut down on the number of cars driving up to the parking lot up there? I imagine that the people who want to drive up to the Observatory parking lot to hike from the nearby trailhead would be unhappy since it won’t be as convenient. I’m sure something could be worked out though. I worry that with the cafe and restaurant up there, the winding road up through the park will become a bit of a highway… Well, that is a discussion for another time. You can go to their website here for more information and to make reservations and the like. [...]

]]> http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/05/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-1728 Matchmaker « Kaleidoscopic Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:29:36 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/04/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-1728 [...] I know Bitch, Ph.D. probably reads Cosmic Variance, because her links led me to Sean Carroll at his previous blog, but has she read the posts there about navigating Los Angeles by foot and by bus? (I think Clifford wrote them, but I couldn’t find them when I searched, so maybe one of the other authors did.) Anyway, I hope she gets a chance to take Pseudonymous Kid to the Griffith Observatory this year. [...] [...] I know Bitch, Ph.D. probably reads Cosmic Variance, because her links led me to Sean Carroll at his previous blog, but has she read the posts there about navigating Los Angeles by foot and by bus? (I think Clifford wrote them, but I couldn’t find them when I searched, so maybe one of the other authors did.) Anyway, I hope she gets a chance to take Pseudonymous Kid to the Griffith Observatory this year. [...]

]]> http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/05/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-1670 Warren Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:45:56 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/04/griffith-announces-opening/#comment-1670 News item at <a href="http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/29455.html" rel="nofollow">startrek.com</a>. News item at startrek.com.

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