It is trivial to remotely take control of the brakes of nearly any #train in North America (both freight and passenger):

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-191-10

A quick writeup: https://xcancel.com/midwestneil/status/1943708133421101446

Until people who truly care about #security are given a lasting seat at the table, overriding entrenched political interests to maintain the status quo, the #rail domain will never experience any meaningful success in the security realm.

Happy to share our new (open access) paper "Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems" https://rdcu.be/evGGx

This analysis is a significant update of the work done for the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change, MedECC https://www.medecc.org/ @jpGattuso

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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 )