🥖Working on a thing. Are there any other cities that require you to cross town to take your next train? I’m ignoring London for now.

@chuuchuu Milan, Budapest, Madrid. Sometimes Lyon, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Warsaw.

Nice looking feature! :)

@stefanlindbohm you missed Glasgow, Manchester and the heaving metropolis of Bradford

i guess if you're being cheeky you could add Lille and Birmingham

@bovine3dom They said no London so I assumed no UK :). But yes!

(I also have some work of my own on these stations in the UK, even though I’ve caught up on some UK stuff recently.)

@stefanlindbohm ah yes the crucial transfer between Portsmouth and Southsea station and Southsea Hoverport
@bovine3dom You know I prioritise the most important use cases!
@bovine3dom Here’s another very important feature: the ropeway icon for exactly one service that is included in international timetables :D

@stefanlindbohm ah but there's loads of them in GTFS

you're just doing future proofing :)

@bovine3dom I’m actually missing the gondolas across Switzerland to mountain towns that are considered public transport, like Le Chable -> Verbier. Would help A LOT for skiers who don’t know they should search Le Chable to go to Verbier etc.

Do you have other examples that would help long distance journeys?

@stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom For Switzerland you can use https://www.sbb.ch/de/billette-angebote/abos/ga/ga-geltungsbereich.html as a reference. (zoom in twice to see cable transports)

Through line = GA is valid, so in the majority it's public subsidised (although some touristic cable transports accept GA as well)
Dotted line = GA counts as half-fare card, these lines aren't usually not subsidised but discounts for GA carriers will be granted as a courtesy.

@wrzlbrnft @bovine3dom I will definitely put this on my list of things to get back to. We just need some way to include a continuous link as a leg in our journey planner.

We already have ticketing access to include the gondolas through the Swiss national ticketing system, provided we figure out a way to link the station code with that travel leg.

@stefanlindbohm What is exactly the challenge? Most of Swiss cable transports are included in the Open Transport Data sets > https://data.opentransportdata.swiss/dataset/?groups=timetables . Also every cable transport station has it's own UIC code ( https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset/haltestellen-des-offentlichen-verkehrs ).

I see that there now is even a dedicated beta dataset for cable cars and ski lifts ( https://data.opentransportdata.swiss/dataset/seilbahnen-netex ).
@bovine3dom

Datensatz - opentransportdata.swiss - CKAN data catalog

@wrzlbrnft We (exclusively, for now) use the international timetable dataset (MERITS) where these are not included, and we don’t have an internal structure for continuous links like gondolas. Maybe the latter is also the reason why they’re not included in MERITS? (Haven’t looked into how they’re represented in NeTEx yet.)

Both are totally solvable issues, but we have many fish to fry and that’s why :)

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