Notices by Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social), page 20

The EU has helped finance the renovation of the bridge Chalampé - Neuenburg… but to make it bike friendly

Welcome, but any chance to get the #CrossBorderRail train back too?

The new 2024 #CrossBorderRail merchandise is ready

As I am off to South East Europe this year's design features the classic should-be-interoperable-but-because-of-politics-isn’t series 441/1141 electric locomotive that can be found in 🇭🇷🇷🇸🇷🇴🇲🇰🇧🇦

https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/about/merchandise/#!/

Right

Now the #EiffelTowers map is ready as well! 💪

Now over 470 towers mapped

Full zoomable map
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#3/22.35/11.87

Can you help me confirm the status of the ones with the ? icons? Can you send me a picture to use for the ones without one? Any towers I am missing?

Next: update the blog post about this (not today!)

I also think the premise completing TEN-T will improve passenger *rights* is incorrect. It might improve the passenger experience (speed, reliability). But things will still go wrong and operators will still be malevolent. #ConnectingEuropeDays

WHAT? SNCF now saying high speed rail is more unreliable in Spain since new operators entered the market. 1) Isn’t it SNCF operated OUIGO that’s worst? And 2) isn’t it because there are now more trains running? #ConnectingEuropeDays

Now SNCF - whose network is only about 4% ERTMS equipped - is defending ERTMS as a passenger benefit. Ok. #ConnectingEuropeDays

This presentation from Cécile Guilhaumaud from SNCF is amazing. She has no self awareness - anyone with any knowledge of this sector knows SNCF is in some of this *doing precisely the opposite* of what she is saying. #ConnectingEuropeDays

€6m cost for better info from SNCF Voyageurs as a result of 2023 Passenger Rights Regulation says Cécile Guilhaumaud. But can we know if SNCF is even fully compliant? #ConnectingEuropeDays

Siemens Vectron ad

Anything missing? 🤔

#ConnectingEuropeDays

Might be the last time I ever hear a speech by Adina Vălean 😭 😭 😭 #ConnectingEuropeDays

Damn I’m so stuck. I’m lost in this transport policy business.

I can’t stand the flowery rhetoric of politicians not backed up by action. I can’t bear officials hiding behind jargon. I can’t tolerate industry people saying the indefensible because they have to. #ConnectingEuropeDays

“Ensure a timely completion of the [TEN-T] network”

We *all* know it won’t be complete on time. Why are we even saying we can ensure timely completion? Why are we bullshitting ourselves?

#ConnectingEuropeDays

Karima Delli says TEN-T as TNT 🧨 and I can’t unhear it. #ConnectingEuropeDays

Now Delli complaining 40% of rail lines are not electrified. Don’t get me wrong - *some* of those ought to be electrified, but most of those lines are marginal, especially for freight. #ConnectingEuropeDays

You need a coherent intellectual framework to know how to talk about these big long term transport topics covered by TEN-T. And how to fit details into a whole. It’s genuinely hard. That’s probably why using jargon is so common here - it’s hard not to fall into that trap. #ConnectingEuropeDays

Now Martin Kupka (Czech transport minister) talking about gaps in TEN-T. That’s you he’s talking about, Bayern. #ConnectingEuropeDays

Oh 🤦♂️ They’re now trying to talk about re-gauging railways on the panel and it’s it effing peinlich. #ConnectingEuropeDays

And now the moderator is making facile points about Turku being close to Russia is painful too. Thank goodness Minna Arve the mayor of Turku is 😎#ConnectingEuropeDays

What challenges does the revision of TEN-T bring you? Slido poll. Someone answered “France” and it’s 😂. I swear it wasn’t my answer. Really. #ConnectingEuropeDays

I thought the rail freight stuff was abstract yesterday. This TEN-T and urban nodes stuff today is worse. I’m totally lost. #ConnectingEuropeDays