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Jon Worth

@jonworth

2 Nov

🇬🇧 finally legally joined EU Digital COVID Certificate (EU DCC) scheme on Thursday last week, but there is still confusion as to what this means for people travelling from 🇬🇧 to 🇪🇺 (and 16 other countries in the scheme) and vice versa

This 🧵 explains what changed and what to do

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️
The EU Digital COVID Certificate can only prove you are vaccinated. It has no bearing on what travel restrictions may or may not be imposed on someone travelling from or to a given country - so check before you travel!

🚨 BEAR IN MIND 🚨
There might be other ways to prove you are vaccinated *other than* the EU Digital COVID Certificate, and what works *to enter* a country might differ from what happens to prove your vaccine status *once you're in* - to enter a restaurant or museum for example

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

1 Nov

Another Jon-doesn't-understand-French-trains thought...

There are 8 TGVs each way a day, Paris-Mulhouse. 4 of these go further to Zürich HB, via Basel SBB.

But why not extend the Mulhouse TGVs to Basel SBB?

Mulhouse Ville to Basel SBB is just 22 minutes by regional train (TER). The fastest TGV manages it in just 18 minutes...

As loads of Deutsche Bahn ICEs, and SBB trains to all over Switzerland serve Basel, surely this would be a useful addition - for very little extra effort!

And while we're at it...

There are 2 direct TGVs each day from Paris Est to Colmar, via Strasbourg.

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

26 Oct

The biggest problem with 🛤 in 🇫🇷?

SNCF's and the regions' attitude to the 🚙

Read the 🧵 - it'll make sense

The whole approach to rail in 🇫🇷 is that - outside Île-de-France, and a couple of tiny pockets around Lyon, Strasbourg and Marseille - the 🚆 is a complement to the 🚗, not an *ALTERNATIVE* to it

This leads - in long distance rail travel - to abominations like Lorraine TGV, Aix-en-Provence TGV and Haute-Picardie TGV

These stations - nicknamed beetroot stations - are basically massive car parks, with no regular trains and just a 🚌 to the nearest town

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

22 Oct

I follow French politics enough to roughly know what I don't know

And about Éric Zemmour I don't know how someone who's never run *anything* can at least be considered a viable candidate in the first round

*How* is that possible?

Someone like Marine Le Pen at least knows how to do basic organisation. She's run a political movement of sorts

Macron was a semi-outsider, party politically. But he'd been finance minister at least

Is the rationale with Zemmour that this is communication / culture war *alone*?

When the gaffes come (and they will come), is "hang on, it doesn't work like that?" going to stick? Or not? Are we so post-truth this isn't going to matter?

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

21 Oct

OK, so here's the idea for #ZugGegenFlug in Germany

Send two passengers on each of 5 routes (BER-MUC, BER-FRA, BER-Bonn, HAM-FRA, HAM-MUC), one on a train, one on a plane - and see who manages it fastest

Explained in the blog post 👇
jonworth.eu/zuggegenflug-a…

@seatsixtyone

The idea is essentially a German version of today's @seatsixtyone vs. @SimonCalder race in the UK today

Were there enough interest (and finance) we could add extra routes - either within Germany (Düsseldorf-München?) or to neighbouring countries too

@bladewing678

Tell me what you think @bladewing678 @BastianKettner
@elba013 @PRO_BAHN @kkklawitter @Lenny_du_Nord @LenaDonat @VCDeV @McWhirterAlex @DirkFlege @mofaireV @nickabrooks @JKugoth @TspBackgroundMT @wagner_vdv @VDV_Verband @martin_speer @JumpUp1991 - could we make this happen? /ends

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

20 Oct

As #ZügeStattFlüge is currently up for discussion, and people are coming to me with the usual complaint "Waaaaa well trains are too expensive compared to flights!"... here's a semi-systematic response

Explained in the 🧵

Imagine 6 example cases

I am in Frankfurt 2 weeks from now, 4 weeks from now, and 6 weeks from now, and want to fly or take the train home to Berlin after a business meeting (depart after 4pm)

And same for München - back to Berlin in 2, 4 and 6 weeks

All prices are taken from DB for trains, right now

And flight prices from Kayak, right now

No discount cards used. Only direct connections

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