Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track

Hugo Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No.1 "Midsommarvaka"
Frédéric Zosso

Thanks @Jonas_Bostrom for this one - the right time of year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvbq-kwulHI

Here's this morning's intro video, explaining what I am trying to do today!

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/4HQeVoY3KhkfeQ6uNdJc9J

Over there a recovery truck is picking up a FlixBus, presumably the one that was meant to operate my service to Grums…

We’re delayed 30 mins.

Now a further 30 mins delay announced

If I miss the train in Grums... my only option is to stay longer on the Flixbus, as far as Örebro

Might be an interesting argument: "Your bus was late, so I missed my train, so now you need to let me stay on it longer!" 🤔

It's almost like a real live case of the problems of Multimodal Digital Mobility Services the Commission is trying to legislate about!

#CrossBorderRail Finale Bus 12 of 22
Flixbus
08:00 Oslo S - Grums 10:36

Bus type: Volvo 9700, 2 axles
⛽️
🚲: ❓ (not officially, but there would be space in the hold)
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (hold is huge)
🧽: 🙂

But rather than getting us going a bit earlier, the driver is now smoking a cigarette

Priorities 🤷‍♂️

I simply do not see why anyone *by choice* would favour a bus over a train

Other than Lux Express in the Baltics (that strikes me as a genuinely good company) I’d very happily give all the others a miss

Edit: as people are going “but buses are cheaper!” - I get why then you’d take a bus! But if all else were equal?