Wow, the  🤝🏽  cooperation is as great ... they can't even sell you tickets across this border ...

Online, they say tickets not available and in the bus ... they just sell you a ticket from the first German stop to your destination rather than from your station of departure.

I fear someone wants to avoid the complexity of actually selling a ticket with correct taxes applied abroad.

Especially sad : This bus runs on the historic Rhine Railway between 🇫🇷 Haguenau and 🇩🇪 Rastatt but apart from the railway tracks on the Rhine bridge it was mostly dismantled between 🇫🇷 Beinheim and 🇩🇪 Wintersdorf.

Additionally this bus timetable is a chaotic joke. Arrrrggghhhhh.

Not even speaking of that I use this bus via Germany because the Bienwaldbahn operates that infrequently on the French side that it's actually faster.

#Bienwaldbahn #LackGesoffen #CrossBorderRail #CrossBorderFail

Replacement bus drivers who insist on stopping at the railway station rather than just quickly opening the door in the village center ... Do we know more about them ?   

And an entire month of this bullshit still pending 😵‍💫.

#Bienwaldbahn #LackGesoffen #XDaysSevLeft #CrossBorderRail

I hate Bienwaldbahn and Bienwaldbahn hates me   ...

#Bienwaldbahn #LackGesoffen #XDaysSevLeft

Luggage packed, first #CrossBorderRail train caught : I'm leaving for three weeks of train travels today ; connecting the FOSDEM in Belgium via the Baltics, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan and China with the FOSSASIA in Thailand. My first destination will be 🇸🇮 #Ljubljana due to a business trip.

I gladly caught the last  🤝🏽    RB52 / C38 on #Bienwaldbahn since the later ones are canceled.

Outfit : the #CrossBorderRail shirts from @jon !

If you're interested in my travel report, follow #FOSSRail on your Fedi instance of choice.

#FOSSRailPrelude

Had a fun passenger survey.

What type of ticket do you hold ? Foreign.
How many times do you travel by ICE train ? 200 times per year
What was your border station ? Lauterbourg. What, there's another border than Kehl ?
Do you still travel back today ? Yes.
What was the price if your ticket ? 902 EUR

Finally #Bienwaldbahn estimated in a passenger survey !

#CrossBorderRail