Knowing how much my followers love massive PDFs about French railways, here's Adrien Thérond's master's dissertation on how TERs in Centra Val de Loire are dealing with increased passenger numbers

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOLthgIZ9BIb_6OcxpenKzYCeWm6JFYh/view

juicy bits:

1) contracts penalise the SNCF for running shorter trains than planned but no incentive to run longer ones

2) SNCF software is so bad that trains can only be listed full for their entire journeys. The SNCF creates fake trains to solve this

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New drawing: Hire bike

(Notes on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/diagramclub/p/047-a-hire-bike-blocking-the-pavement )

30 km/h en ville : perd-on vraiment plus de temps qu'à 50 km/h ?

Selon le spécialiste de la navigation par satellite #TomTom, la réduction de la vitesse à 30 km/h dans les grandes villes n'aggraverait pas les embouteillages. Elle permettrait même de gagner en fluidité et en "tranquillité" pour les urbains.
https://www.automobile-magazine.fr/toute-l-actualite/article/48682-30-km-h-en-ville-perd-on-vraiment-plus-de-temps-qua-50-km-h

#Ville30

200 page report on the future of financing French transport infrastructure just dropped

https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/documents/20250709_Rapport_AFT.pdf

Some controversial stuff in there including higher property tax in areas with good public transport and a new tax on high speed rail tickets

My favourite titbit though is that the SNCF makes use of its capital stock so dreadfully that just opening local train contracts up to competition can reduce costs per km by 30% - almost down to German levels

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Petition to have all buses and coaches in Ireland fitted with these backers to carry bikes!

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#Rothar #BikeTooter #MastoDaoine #PublicTransport #MultiModal

Die ÖBB reduzieren ihre Bestellung neuer Nightjet-Züge von 33 auf 24 Garnituren. Dafür gibt es mehr Railjets.

https://presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-mehr-railjets-der-neuen-generation-fuer-den-wachsenden-tagesfernverkehr?id=220122&menueid=27021&l=deutsch