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Nov 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Talking #9euroTicket at #PassengerFest - slightly frustrating that it’s DB talking about it. Other views are available 😉
“Did behaviour change in the way the government intended?” asks the moderator. Ha. Did the government even *know* what its intention was?
Oh and the DB dude is saying it was too cheap. As he would. Poorer citizens would say otherwise… zeit.de/mobilitaet/202…
40% of the #9EuroTicket tickets sold by DB were at ticket machines apparently. The DB guy expresses surprise. Anyone who’s queued at a Reisezentrum would *always* try a machine before queuing!
Someone asks why there was little modal shift. The guy says it’s because public transport in rural areas is poor. FFS. That’s not close to right. People don’t permanently change behaviour based on a 3 month experiment 🤦‍♂️

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Nov 12
😭 Germany builds a high speed line through Baden-Württemberg - to speed up Stuttgart-München services

It’s been in planning for *years*

But SNCF’s TGVs used for Paris-Stuttgart-München services haven’t been updated to be compatible with the new line!

swr.de/swraktuell/bad…
Jeez. It could take until 2025 until TGVs are approved for the line.

And the whole effing point of Stuttgart21 - of which this line is a part - was to create a Paris-München high speed corridor!

Really, how can everyone mess up *so badly*?
And to those going “yeah but there are few TGVs anyway” true, but so it goes on and on. International services are the lowest priority - even when *they were the stated rationale for building the line*
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Nov 9
So you’re concerned about the impact of the Musk takeover of Twitter?

And you’ve heard about Mastodon as an alternative, and want to know quickly and easily how to make a start there?

This is the 🧵 for you
⚠️ What you need to start ⚠️

ALL of this works better in a web browser on a regular computer than it does on a mobile or a tablet. So *start* there

You’ll need access to your email, and about 10 minutes to do all of this
STEP 1️⃣

Go to Debirdify pruvisto.org/debirdify/ and put your Twitter username in there, and hit “Search followed accounts”

This will search the people you follow on Twitter for their Mastodon usernames
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Nov 6
OK, let me explain this one in some more detail

I am not that much of a fan of building high speed lines, but the one I sketch in green on the map here - I call it LGV France-Allemagne - would make a lot of sense

I will explain it in the 🧵
First the credit: @nicohuurman was the one who suggested this solution to me

And this is based on what I saw on the ground this autumn when I cycled from Rastatt 🇩🇪 to Roeschwoog 🇫🇷 - you can find those tweets here:
The central problem: there is no reasonable rail line at the moment between northern Alsace and Germany - the Wörth-Lauterbourg and Wissembourg lines are slow, and part of the Rastatt-Roeschwoog line is missing (re-instating the bridge would be complex)
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Nov 4
The new #49EuroTicket for regional public transport in Germany is good news!

But how it will work, and who and when it can be purchased, has caused some confusion

So I have made a FAQ about it in English on my blog 👇
jonworth.eu/germanys-49-eu…

Summary in the 🧵
What is the 49 Euro Ticket?

It is a flat rate public transport ticket – for 49 Euro you can travel on all local and regional buses, trams, metros, S-Bahn and regional trains for 1 calendar month in the whole of Germany.
Is 49 Euro for this a good deal?

Yes. A monthly public transport ticket for some individual cities has until now cost more than 100 Euro. So this reduces the costs for regular commuters pretty much everywhere.
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Oct 23
Another thing…

Tory MPs send nominations to 1922 Committee, but AFAIK the 1922 will only publish the final totals, not the names of nominees

Is it possible Tory MPs say publicly they’ll back Johnson, but in private actually nominate Sunak?

So Johnson needs >110 publicly?
Declaring for Johnson - publicly - might serve two purposes

It keeps local members - who lean towards Johnson - happy. And Johnson is mendacious, so will more strongly reward only backers than Sunak or Mordaunt

Wdyt @patrickjfl @robfordmancs @ProfTimBale @SnellArthur ?
(Oh and of course were this to happen… it’s going to kick off one hell of a fight. Imagine Johnson gets 105 public backers, declares he is running… and then the results from the 1922 show 95 MPs for Johnson. It’d be 💥)
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Oct 21
My diagrams are back!

Not sure if this is 🎉 or 😢 or 😡 but hey ho, this Tory leadership contest only lasts a week

And we all want to know: who is going to win! #Toryleadership

So here’s my effort to work that out…

Explanations in the 🧵
All versions of these diagrams, calculations will be available at:
jonworth.eu/nextprimeminis…

Version 1.0.0, headline figures
Sunak - 4️⃣3️⃣% chance
Johnson - 3️⃣4️⃣% chance
Mordaunt - 1️⃣3️⃣% chance
Someone else - 2️⃣% chance
Chaos as procedure rendered invalid - 7️⃣% chance
This diagram is rather different to the ones in the past, for there are three inputs - assessing whether each of the 3 candidates who are favourites will indeed run, and then if they will actually get to the ballot of Tory members
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