Notices by Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)

@ryanc we ran into this in Tridactyl a few months ago when a user was trying to search for "538" https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/5081

@apps Fedilab's "search cache" function is absolutely fantastic for finding toots that I know I've seen within the last few days

thank you for all your work on it ♥️

People like to complain about British train tickets because they're complicated, but they do also work in ways that continental Europe could learn from:

1. I went to Trip.com and put in my origin and destination
2. It came back with a huge array of prices, times and routes. I picked the one that suited me best (the cheapest)
3. I went to the station to collect my four physical tickets, far cheaper than one physical ticket - Trip.com found the best combination

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8. I'll get 50% back on the face value of the physical tickets wired to my bank account in the next few days
9. So rather than £30 the 200km straight line journey will have cost me £15

I think the key points are:

1. Encourage split tickets, don't make them illegal (SNCF!)
2. Free market for ticket sellers
3. Journeys are protected, not individual tickets
4. When stuff goes wrong, everyone has to help, no matter whose "fault" it is

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4. I did my journey which was three trains from two different companies, and a ferry from a third
5. The final train was 33 minutes late, which meant I was due compensation
6. Because in the UK, journeys are protected, not tickets, the compensation was due on the whole trip and not just the last physical ticket
7. To get compensation, I filled in a form on the final train company's website and sent them photos of the tickets

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How expensive would it really be to bribe the Italians to get out of bed 20 minutes later and to get them to accept French tickets?

And what would it take for the local paper to notice that this supposedly closed dead railway has eight mysterious ghost trains going up and down it every day

More frustrating reporting on #CrossBorderRail on the Nice -> Cuneo line.

Nice -> Breil is closed due to track work, SNCF runs replacement buses between them but no trains between Breil and Tende. SNCF won't run trains again for a year.

Shop owners understandably frustrated, some talking of closing.

But what the article doesn't tell you is that Trenitalia runs four (almost empty) trains a day in each direction along the line. You just can't buy tickets for them

https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/lull-ceramique-contrainte-de-fermer-boutique-959892

@jon

@mario fwiw I like https://nightride.com/en for getting an idea of the prices more than ÖBB's own site, it's not perfect but you can get a feeling for when is cheap and when is expensive
@pmdj