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Petra Steiner 1d ago

This poster role is traveling to #DH2025 @dh2025 in #Portugal on a regional cross-border #train . Why is it almost empty? I can tell you: there is no connection for reaching it from #Madrid on a Sunday. #Verkehrspolitik #trafficpolitics

#WhatMakesPolesLoveRail2025

波鉄 (Hatetsu)1d ago

41% believes taking a bicycle on the train is "very convenient", 20% disagrees.

60% would consider the train when travelling with a bicycle and 20% ruled it out - this compared to very similar numbers for the car - 60% yes, 22% no - and much worse ones for the coach - 20% yes, 56% no. The rest were undecided.

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cc @jon @cycling_on_rails and anyone else interested in bike+rail policy

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

Apicultor 🐝1d ago

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

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.

Altis

1d ago

J’ai testé un vélo hors norme : le grand-bi.
https://youtu.be/w8arav7B9ls

Wolfgang Cramer 3d ago

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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Maxime Messier 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🌻3d ago

Des pistes cyclables récentes… et déjà saturées : le #velo bat de nouveaux records de fréquentation à Paris.
https://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/des-pistes-cyclables-recentes-et-deja-saturees-le-velo-bat-de-nouveaux-records-de-frequentation-a-paris-11-07-2025-ZEAQEXYKPNGU3MDOTHULUDREFM.php

Des pistes cyclables récentes… et déjà saturées : le vélo bat de nouveaux records de fréquentation à Paris

Selon les derniers relevés de la Ville de Paris, le succès ne se dément pas. Il rend même certains aménagements récents déjà obsolètes.

Le Parisien

Jon Worth 2d ago

Another sleeper in the wall

@jokef Petits joueurs ces Français, en Angleterre pas de panneau pour moins de 20% 😜 Et il y a des panneaux!

@jon "No long security lines" a bit ironic that the article focused on the one European train route that collects them all 😉

Cycling on Rails 4d ago

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

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

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

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

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

1/2

Despite the damning facts the report is pretty nice about the SNCF

The dissertation should perhaps have a bigger disclaimer saying that the author is currently paid by SNCF Voyageurs 🤔

On the bright side it means we know at least one person working at the SNCF knows that clockface timetables exist and are fantastic tools at squeezing maximum value for money out of your capital stock

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Raph V.4d ago

@bovine3dom I remember my late grandfather complaining, back in the 1990s, that SNCF made the mistake of procuring "Socrate", an information system that was designed for airlines, and therefore was terrible at handling the fact that trains have multiple stops, but apparently lessons have not been learned in the past (checks calculator) 30 years...

@raph_v i love that this is the kind of thing your granddad talked to you about. aspirational