Meanwhile in Polish regional rail, it looks like the government is working on removing the article adding an absolute requirement for voivodeships to put trains to tender when the IV railway package obligations come into force. As a reminder, this tighter requirement was added to its national implementation here in exchange for the EU allowing a bailout of Polregio a decade ago - with its removal, voivodeships would be allowed to hand lots over to their own companies - and about half of all voivodeships has one now, though not necessarily a working one yet - as allowed by the EU regulation.

Unsurprisingly, Allrail, the private passenger railway undertakings' organization, is rather unhappy about this, as it is with the short, one week, consultation period. Additionally, it remains unclear whether this was actually agreed with the Commission (though I doubt they'd stand in the way): https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/powierzenie-dla-przewoznikow-wojewodzkich-jednak-zostanie-allrail-nie-uchylajmy-tej-furtki-127642.html

#kolej #RegionalRail #rail #Poland

Powierzenie dla przewoźników wojewódzkich jednak zostanie? AllRail: Nie uchylajmy tej furtki

Samorządy województw być może zachowają możliwość zlecania regionalnych przewozów kolejowych własnym spółkom bez przetargu. Taką furtkę przewiduje najnowszy projekt nowelizacji ustawy o publicznym transporcie zbiorowym. Stowarzyszenie niezależnych przewoźników alarmuje, że doprowadzi to do zahamowania liberalizacji rynku, a przez to – do większych wydatków organizatorów transportu i pasażerów.

Rode the new Skyline rail towards town. It now goes two stops east from HNL. Someday...maybe... it'll make it to Waikiki.

It's automated and comfy. Just taking forever to build because any infrastructure in the US is a challenge and then you have to add on the Hawaii-hard-mode factor.

#Hawaii #transit #rail

Just learned about @openrail, the OpenRail Association.

> collaborative development of Open Source software in the railway sector

grouping all the big train operators in Europe... Fascinating.

https://openrailassociation.org/

https://osrd.fr/

#train #rail #maps #inventory #modeling

OpenRail Association

The OpenRail Association provides a neutral space for collaborative development of Open Source software in the railway sector. It is incorporated as a non-profit organisation according to Belgian law as AISBL.

Hô Chi Minh-Ville s’apprête à lancer le métro Bên Thành-Thu Thiêm en avril – Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

In which nothing happens for years, then everything happens in weeks.
Construction on Canberra's Light Rail Stage 2A is powering ahead, with three new stops taking shape at Edinburgh Avenue, City South and Commonwealth Park.
This could be an amazing re-shaping of the city, with the core shifting to city west/south where the light rail stops are. It will be the end of sad, tired old Civic and Garema Place.
Crowds are going to pour into Commonwealth park and west basin from the suburbs, too.
#urbanism #rail #lightrail #transit
Rainy day photo from years past, old railroad steel bridge with large rivets.
#RainyDaysAndMondays #rail

L'Écroulement d'un Mythe Fondateur

https://peer.adalta.social/w/nJ8q1dAth8K713WXc8VCAc

L'Écroulement d'un Mythe Fondateur

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