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May 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Germany has a #Schengen suspension on its border to Austria

And Bavarian police are delaying trains by controlling passports at the border

@PRO_BAHN_by @bladewing678 ask the police do these controls on moving trains

NO! End the Schengen suspension!

pro-bahn.de/bayern/presse_…
And all this is just placebo-security anyway, as someone from Austria could easily cross into Czechia and then Germany, or Czechia then Poland then Germany, or into Slovakia then Poland then Germany.
And here’s the list of current suspensions. France still has one *because of COVID*

WTF?

ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/p…
And having worked on this for a decade now, Schengen suspensions for anything other than air (even there I’m not sure) make no sense. There’s no way to close borders properly. So when you do, police pick up a few dim low level criminals while inconveniencing the population.

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May 3
This is ridiculous now

On 16 February @TrainTracksEU and I coordinated an open letter to @AdinaValean @GabrielMariya about the lack of trains to @kaunas2022

We *still* don’t even have an answer

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This was not any old letter

We assembled solid support - from @EUpassengers @PRO_BAHN @KolejDEPL @AnnaDeparnay and plenty of others, all listed on the site: kaunas.trainsforeurope.eu

We simply wanted to know: why is it impossible to get to Kaunas by train from either PL or LV?
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So the bike for the bits where there are no trains on #CrossBorderRail is ready!

🎉
Close up on how it all looks
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Apr 23
If UK - or anywhere else - wants to run railways as a genuine public service, fine, let’s have that discussion - and what it means for capacity, demand based prices (or not), subsidy etc.

A £369 run Manchester-London is horrid, but that’s what the UK market will bear, currently
Argue for a lower cap on fares, and you reduce income for the railways. Means you might have to subsidise them more. Or run them as public rather than private enterprises. But that too adds a burden for the state.
And be careful what you wish for - because SNCF and Renfe are state owned rail firms - and their price systems, especially on international routes, are not exactly public service / accessible for all either.
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Apr 15
How the 9 Euro ticket will work in Germany

1️⃣ Buy it where you are
2️⃣ €9 for calendar month (June, July, August), not for month period from when you buy
3️⃣ Works *Germany wide*, inc. on regional trains
4️⃣ Does not work on high speed IC, EC & ICE trains

ndr.de/nachrichten/ha…
(And this is *fantastic* - particularly for long inter-regional journeys on routes like Berlin-Görlitz a €9 for the month pays for itself in just 1 trip!)
As this prompted loads of Qs, some more clarifications
5️⃣ This isn’t DB, but done by local transport authorities - so it’ll work on non-DB metros, trams, buses, regional trains
6️⃣ Anyone, even non-residents, ought to be able to buy it (as that’s the case with any monthly pass)
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Apr 13
I feel like I’ve lost my mind looking at #CrossBorderRail in 🇪🇺

Almost *everywhere you look* there are *simple things* you could do to cheaply and easily improve rail connections to bring people together, across borders

But no. Political and rail operations stubbornness 🤷‍♂️
Lupków 🇵🇱 - Medzilaborce 🇸🇰

It’s less than 20 min trip
Track exists

But they only run trains on Saturdays and Sundays between 25 June and 28 August

🤦‍♂️
Charleroi 🇧🇪 - Maubeuge 🇫🇷

They run just 2 trains a day, at least all year

But one of those goes at 05:42 in the morning

Oh and these were the first trains SNCB cancelled due to COVID - you’d not rely on this cross border!
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