A serious disruption (a fatality) earlier today has been causing chaos all over East Midlands Rail. I slipped onto a train that terminated early at Derby, stranding a whole crowd of people who wanted to go to Sheffield.

Well lucky me: Derby's where I needed to change anyway.

In the meantime: GOOD NEWS! EMR has put together an impromptu special service to Sheffield! How nice for all those passengers!

But wait a sec. Where do you think they acquired the train for that special service? That's right! My connecting train was cancelled and repurposed!

I know that when Google Maps on Android asks these crowdsourced data gathering questions they probably mean to be asking about cars, but they don't say so, and I always prefer to de-emphasize cars, so I always feel free to answer the question as though it were about bicycles instead.

And then I see this! HELL YEAH, BIGGEST IN THE WORLD! "Plenty of parking" FTW!!

An interesting idea that, making the frames of the hire bikes interlock in a daisy chain to form their own dock. Less interesting when you consider it forces you to take the last one in the chain, and a shame if that one is defective.

Which mine was: no assist. To the extent that I wasn't even sure it was even an e-bike at all (another user confirmed it is, actually). A magnificent effort to manually lug that heavy thing across #Marseille .

#BikeTooter

Signs like this all over the Brittany Ferries arrivals terminal in Plymouth, including near the UK Border checkpoint.

Is "keeping Britain trading" a dog whistle for "let's carry on not having any inbound Brexit customs checks"?

Travelled to Portugal by #CrossBorderRail and mentioning it to people (unobnoxiously) hoping to make a #climatechange difference, but surrounded by thousands of tourists who I just know will just not consider doing the same (do they silently judge me crazy, even?). Sad drop in the bucket.

You're not helping, Ryanair.