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Jon Worth

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Oct 10

I’ve tied myself in a bit of a knot

I am now known enough in EU rail circles to be invited to chair panels at events

However I’m currently earning ZERO from rail advocacy, so finding €125 for Thalys home from that event is tricky… and the “pay” to chair is free attendance

And to those saying “if they want your time they should pay”, the response sadly is no, not really. Organisers would find loads of people who could replace me who’d have all their costs covered by their employers in the rail industry… so it’s at my costs, or not at all.

Basically: this’d be useful #CrossBorderRail follow up. But my funding for that project is done. I can cross-subsidise some rail advocacy from other comms work I am doing. But there will be some things - like this one probably - where however useful it is, I will have to not go.

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@jonworth

Oct 10

Why French rail needs better timetables, part 6242639

These are the times for Paris-Lille trains on Monday 14 November, across the morning and lunchtime

If you think *only* about Paris-Lille this sort of makes sense… More trains for commuter peaks

But what if Paris-Lille is only one part of your journey, and you need connections?

My trip is Nuits-sous-Ravières (2 hours south of Paris) to Bruges (90 mins north of Lille) on that day

And I need to be in Brugge by 13:15 or so

And so it all breaks down…

The earliest I can get to Paris
08:04

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

Oct 4

I see tweets saying Liz Truss’s premiership is already “done” and that she might not even see out the year

But a serious question: HOW is it going to end?

Theories in the 🧵

RESIGNATION

Truss sees the game is up and resigns

Her ego might not be quite the size of Johnson’s, but it’s still quite large, although you can see the pressure of the last week has started to tell…

Also Truss is more likely to act in the interests of the Tory Party than Johnson ever was

But whatever the chaos, resigning so soon would be extraordinary - it’d require a humility and selflessness she’s not shown

Chances: LOW

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

Oct 1

The last time I took Jadran Ekspres - to Budva in 2019 - it was massively delayed and grim. The bus hasn’t changed, but maybe I have better luck today, off season? Only as far as Herceg Novi today

It’s funny. A person from the bus station, not the bus firm, checks tickets. She speaks decent English. Passengers in front ask “can you tell me the bus times Kotor back to Dubrovnik?” “No! Other country!” she says. She must be asked this *every single day* 🙂

Overheard Australian tourist, complaining “They wanted a Euro for my bag! I never have cash with me!” The ticket I have even tells you there will be a fee for bags. And Croatia isn’t digitised enough to do this contactless!

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

Sep 27

Why does it have to be so “Great”?

Starmer today proposed to form

Great British Energy

Story 👇
msn.com/en-gb/news/ukn…

A quick 🧵, inspired by @Mattio_mattioli

This follows on the heels of

Great British Railways

Background 👇
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bri…

And I suppose this follows from the

GREAT Britain & Northern Ireland Campaign

Background 👇
greatcampaign.com

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Jon Worth

@jonworth

Sep 22

@TimmermansEU

So @TimmermansEU has stated that European railways need to sort out their ticket booking 👇
bnr.nl/nieuws/interna…

The question then is HOW this could happen

I’ll have a go at explaining it all in this 🧵

There are three aspects to a good railway booking - either national or international

You need:
- timetables
- tickets
- live running (is my train on time?)

The last of these is hellish, internationally, so progress on the first two should be the focus - and the Commission’s

@ERA_railways

First, at the moment you *cannot even reliably know what trains even run* - as I explain here 👇
jonworth.eu/skyscanner-for…

The easiest way to fix this: get ALL rail timetables into UIC Merits. @ERA_railways is making progress here, but FIX THE DATA GAPS please @TimmermansEU !

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