Jon WorthMar 23

With legislation on rail ticketing due from the European Commission this spring, how can policymakers - who never normally see the problem - be shown it in a fun way?

The idea: the European Railway Ticketing Championship
https://jonworth.eu/a-silly-idea-to-prove-a-point-the-european-railway-ticketing-championship/

Have a read and let me know what you think!

A silly idea to prove a point? The European Railway Ticketing Championship

With Regulations to finally sort the problems with purchasing tickets for trains, Europe-wide, due to be presented by the European Commission this spring, there remains a crucial problem: do the people who are drafting this legislation (in the Commission), deciding on it (in the Council of the EU and the

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Show threadDeine #LieblingsÆBahn   (nicht  )Mar 23
@jon This sounds really fun – I guess the hardest problem would be to find enough people for the policy and industry teams
Show threadJon WorthMar 23
@aebahn Right. I am working on that! That will determine it it happens or not.
Show threadTor LillqvistMar 23
@jon @aebahn I fear such a competition, if intended to cheekily show how hard it is to book cross-border rail journeys, will just lead to the guilty shrugging it off with No true Scotsman argumentation. ”You are coming up with intentionally hard irrelevant cases, no true customer will want to travel between X and Y by train. But let us show you how easy it is to buy a ticket between Paris and Frankfurt!”
Show threadJon Worth
@tml @aebahn I don't want to include fiendish things in there. Just even trips with 1 change are often hard enough!
Mar 23 at 12:28pmWeb