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   Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:38 JST Jon Worth

   Right. Friends of Europe event ends this morning. Then #CrossBorderRail this afternoon - Bruxelles to Ústí nad Labem 🇨🇿. Thread will start at lunchtime.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:29 JST Jon Worth

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     Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days Baltic Circuit - Bruxelles - Köln - Dresden Neustadt - Usti nad Labem

     Crossing these borders:
     Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 (visited before)
     Schöna 🇩🇪 - Dolní Žleb 🇨🇿 (visited before)

     These borders on the borders map:
     https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/50.506/9.635
     (They’re pretty far apart though!)

     Today's routes on the routes map:
     https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#7/51.028/8.789
     (You might need to use the key!)

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:30 JST Jon Worth

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     Eurostar 😡

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:31 JST Jon Worth

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     And I’d argue that on the international passenger rail aspects DE-PL, DE-CZ (from Sachsen) are better than Western European borders - at least in terms of making best use of existing infrastructure. There’s a confident way to frame this too.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:32 JST Jon Worth

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     Meanwhile Woidke is trying to promote rail improvements in eastern Germany

     https://www.schiene.de/news-7890/Woidke-Ost-Regierungschefs-fuer-zuegigeren-Bahn-Ausbau.html

     I don’t like this phrasing though. These lines aren’t deprioritised because they’re in the east. All such projects struggle to get attention

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:34 JST Jon Worth

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     Talking about polarisation today at Friends of Europe

     It reminds me of friends’ reaction when I went to Seifhennersdorf. And polite German friends of mine said “why would you ever go to Seifhennersdorf? And will you be safe?” https://jonworth.eu/the-personal-is-political-have-you-ever-been-to-seifhennersdorf-zgorzelec-or-ormenio/

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:35 JST Jon Worth

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     • can

     But then I read @can (who I’ve never met, but on Mastodon seems like a super person) met a friend of mine Arian who is a train manager on the Berlin-Stockholm night train, on board the train, and that makes me happy. I know so many super people - just pretty much none of them are close to any levers of political power.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:36 JST Jon Worth

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     This sort of thing.

     Diplomat plates BMW on the pavement as I left, to go get my bike. I think I was one of only two cyclists, at an event of 200 people.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:37 JST Jon Worth

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     Struggling to get going today.

     So struck from yesterday‘s event that the politicians were not only the poorest speakers, but they were the most disconnected and the most intellectually lazy. And these were people from mainstream parties.

     Step by step I’m losing all trust in this elite I’ve always been on the fringes of.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:10:54 JST Jon Worth

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     #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days Baltic Circuit Train 7 of 29
     EST 9435
     13:25 Bruxelles Midi - Köln Hbf 15:15
     Eurostar

     Train type: Alstom PBKA, 8 Carriages
     ⚡️
     🚲: ✅
     🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
     🛜: ✅
     🍽️: ✅
     🧳: ☹️ (one of *the worst designs* - see next toot)
     🧽: 🙂