Also you'd *think* the Labour Party would be all over the truck driver shortage issue...

@JimfromOldham is Shadow Transport Minister
HGVs?
Trucks?
Truck driver?
Shortage?

Ah no, not that sort of shortage
Maybe not on Twitter then... Google News?
Turns out that Kerry McCarthy (Shadow Minister for Green Transport) has put out a couple of paragraphs on the Labour Party site here 👇
labour.org.uk/press/lorry-dr…

Nothing on Twitter though
Where the hell is Labour's 5 point plan to solve the truck driver shortage? Repeated and determined efforts to nail the government on this? Demand that - shock! - short term making it easier to hire from outside the UK might be necessary?
The Government has made a complete balls up, and it feels like Labour is asleep on the job - it's neither properly opposing nor putting forward alternatives

Hopeless

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7 Jul
Based on the @EuCyclistsFed discussion on bikes on trains...

If I were to make a Berlin-Hamburg combined 🚲🚅 day trip, what would be the best bet?

I *think* it'd be:
Own 🚲 from home to Berlin Hbf
🚅 Berlin Hbf - Hamburg Hbf
Hire 🚲 to my destination in Hamburg

But... a 🧵
My first problem is in Berlin

Cycle parking at Berlin Hbf is lousy, and at Berlin Südkreuz (nearest long distance station to my home) it's only fractionally better - would I leave my decent bike there?

At my local S-Bahn station (Hermannstrasse) - forget it
I could instead use a hire bike to get to Berlin Hbf, but that's a bit strange...

Or I could theoretically take my own bike to Hamburg on the train... but that's not simple, as not all the trains on that route convey bikes
Read 5 tweets
6 Jul
So @Geoguessr has its new "Competitive City Streaks" game...

And anyone following me a while on Twitter knows I am huge fan of Geoguessr

So how does this one shape up?

tl;dr - it's nowhere near as good as Battle Royale

An example round shown in the 🧵
It's Bolivia

La Paz is the only city offered in Bolivia

Simple. Next.
It's Canada

There's water

It offers me Vancouver and Toronto

So Vancouver

Simple. Next.
Read 23 tweets
5 Jul
Agh 🤯

One step forward, two steps back, for EU rail booking!

I just tested a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 - Bourg-St-Maurice 🇫🇷 trip on Deutsche Bahn's Reiseauskunft, travelling tomorrow

This is the connection Image
If I click "Preis ermitteln" it takes me to DB's international portal... that can now...

🥁

sell me the whole trip in one transaction!

But giving me 3 tickets, so no through passenger rights. Price: €148,65 Image
But hang on

Tickets *to* Switzerland are normally bookable on the regular Deutsche Bahn website

What does a Frankfurt (Main) 🇩🇪 via Olten 🇨🇭 to Geneve 🇨🇭 cost?

€80,80 Image
Read 7 tweets
28 Jun
So for my #BerlinBeogradBerlin I have a pretty complex series of countries to cross...

This is what I *think* is going to happen re. COVID tests and documentation! But we'll see if in reality this turns out to be the case...

🧵
My first train is the ÖBB NightJet Berlin-Vienna, that departs 🇩🇪 then transits 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 before arriving in 🇦🇹

🇵🇱
24h for transit, with no criteria ✅
auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…

🇨🇿
12h for transit, no criteria ✅
auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
But what about 🇦🇹?

This is trickier...

I change trains at Wien Hbf, have the onward ticket to Budapest already, but 45 mins between trains - is that a Zwischenstopp?

"Die Durchreise durch Österreich ohne Zwischenstopp ist ohne Einschränkungen möglich."
auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolit…
Read 6 tweets
25 Jun
Having now looked into the Hancock-Coladangelo background, they have known each other more than 20 years

And Hancock gave her a job and access, which was raised as a problem at the time, and like all the rest of the Tory sleaze issues, was dismissed then
When did the friendship become an affair? No idea, and it doesn't really matter - that's the deal for the two of them, perhaps only with the caveat that they might have broken lockdown rules to do it - but then Cummings also survived a lockdown breach
So this is basically a typical modern day UK politics story of chums and corrupt appointments

No one else in the government has resigned or been sacked for anything like this, and so Hancock will also survive I reckon
Read 4 tweets
25 Jun
So this is going to be an interesting case...

On Monday night / Tuesday morning my @unsereOEBB NightJet train Berlin-Wien is due to use the stretch of track damaged by the tornado (force majeure!)

What's going to happen?
Instead of going Berlin-Wien (NightJet) and Wien-Budapest (RailJet), there is an alternative...

Berlin-München (DB ICE) and München-Budapest (EuroNight)
But my ticket is not going to be valid on that alternative connection...

Now DB-ÖBB collaboration has generally been good in the past, so it *might* work. But had this been two other rail operators, I am not so sure...
Read 6 tweets

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