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Dec 1 16 tweets 10 min read
Already on the 2nd train of the day: TGV Montbard - Paris. All being well I’ll be in Denmark tonight… but that feels a long way off just now! #EGPCongress #crossborderrail
Across Paris RER Gare de Lyon to Gare du Nord, walk to Gare de l’Est (faster than changing into a Métro to Est) and it’s onto the TGV to Mannheim. So far so good, but I banked on this bit working 🙂 #EGPCongress #CrossBorderRail
Franco-German train service. Very French prices! And no, it’s too early (and expensive) for #beerontrains 😉
A very grey Forbach 🇫🇷 - about to cross the first border of the day to Saarbrücken 🇩🇪 #EGPCongress

+5 currently, delayed by a works train ahead of us. Not nervous yet 🙂 #CrossBorderRail
German Bundespolizei controlling passports of all passengers between Forbach 🇫🇷 and Saarbrücken 🇩🇪. And Germany has no #Schengen suspension… but I can’t today prove the controls are systematic. Anyone else en route to #EGPCongress faced the same? (Denmark DOES have a suspension)
Here’s a piece where I contributed - explaining the mess investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/disman…

And here’s my own investigation at another border - Frankfurt (Oder) #EGPCongress #CrossBorderRail jonworth.eu/illegal-and-sy…
And in the end I just ought to give up on this one. No one gives a 💩 about the future of #Schengen at internal borders. @YlvaJohansson doesn’t care. Macron the ‘great European’ is a hypocrite, keeps controls going. Even pretty much all MEPs don’t care either.
This stuff *ought* to matter - making crossing borders easy, and without controls. Being able to take reliable trains across borders too. The EU should be about this practical stuff. But for political decision makers it’s not. #CrossBorderRail #EGPCongress
Take me to Neumünster!

This ICE will at least get me close-ish to 🇩🇰. But with the bottlenecks of the Riedbahn, Frankfurt Hbf and Hamburg Hbf ahead… fingers crossed! #CrossBorderRail #EGPCongress
A typical day on DB ICEs. A bunch of small things go wrong - trespassers on track means 10 min delay. Train doesn’t get right path into Frankfurt (Main) - adds 5 more mins. Stuck behind a stopping train approaching Hamburg… so 10 min more. So I’ll miss connection in Neumünster.
It’s #beerontrains time of day. RE Neumünster - Flensburg. Looks like I’m going to get to København H tonight… barring any unexpected mishaps in the next hour! #egpcongress
Rendsburg. The craziest and most brilliant bridge in all of Germany. Pity it’s dark… de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendsburg… maps.apple.com/?ll=54.293483,…
Never have I been so happy to see a Danish train! Connection onwards to Fredericia was waiting in Flensburg

The train manager informs us the toilets are only open from Padborg 🇩🇰 though 🤯 #EGPcongress
Under the lights at Tinglev some IC4 trains stand unused, gathering graffiti. Testimony to Denmark’s botched railway policy in the late 1990s/early 2000s
Høje Taastrup, edge of København. 15 min to go.

Can you do Bourgogne (Nuits sous Ravières) to København in a day? Yes

Would I recommend it? No

A tiring and tricky journey, that could have gone wrong and numerous points, but thankfully didn’t!
18 hours 45 mins. 8 trains today. Oh for a night train between France and Denmark instead!

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More from @jonworth

Nov 30
Tomorrow hundreds of delegates - myself included (from 🇫🇷) - will start their trip to @europeangreens congress in København

Most of us will go by 🚆
Many trips will be disrupted as railways are a mess

But there’s nothing about transport on the programme europeangreens.eu/congress2022/p…
I don’t blame @europeangreens for this, short term. They only have on their programme what member parties want.

But there isn’t the fierce debate or intellectual exchange in the Green movement about transport as there is about other issues.
Given CO2 emissions in transport are still rising (unlike in other sectors) that ought to be a matter for urgent attention from Greens.

And hell, the event is in København, a paradise for 🚲. There’d be opportunities to use that as a hook.
Read 4 tweets
Nov 17
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…
Read 5 tweets
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*
Read 4 tweets
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
Read 13 tweets
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)
Read 9 tweets
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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