Notices by Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social), page 23

@forteller ha. We’d probably be taken to court!

This one - and yes that’s parked like that across the pavement - needs a little more than birds pooing on it, so got reported to the Ordnungsamt

24 hours into the crowd funding of #CrossBorderRail, and I am half way to my first goal - so far €1752 of the €3276 I will need to cover the costs of the project. If I get to that, I can then also pay myself a small wage for the time invested as well

Crowd funding 👇
https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/134358-crossborderrail-2024-suedosteuropa

Background 👇
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/seeurope/

@nitin @codeyarns Perhaps. But I find it especially strong here. Maybe we're all too jaundiced by what happened in the past on other networks?

Mastodon: always an opportunity for people to lecture you when you’ve made a frivolous point that they took all too seriously

Quick take on today's adventures with Flixbus live data

What good is live data if I cannot act on it?
https://jonworth.eu/what-good-is-live-tracking-data-if-i-cannot-act-on-it/

Today’s trip starts with the IC Berlin Ostbahnhof - Amersfoort, hauled today by a NS Vectron (leased from ELL). The locomotive change at Bad Bentheim is hence a thing of the past

I’ve taken the line through Bad Bentheim before, but not since I’ve been running #CrossBorderRail - so Bad Bentheim 🇩🇪 - Hengelo 🇳🇱 will be border 200 of the project 🎉

Hey @tuchemnitz

Warum haben Sie die Oberleitungen aus diesem Straßenbahnbild, das Sie über Ihre Wasserstoffstraßenbahn verwenden, herausgeschnitten? Das scheint mir eine fragwürdige Entscheidung zu sein. Vor allem, weil eine Wasserstoffstraßenbahn überhaupt keinen Sinn macht, wenn es eine Oberleitung gibt.

Bildquelle: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goerlitz_Kulturhistorisches_Museum_07.jpg

https://gruene.social/@tuchemnitz@mastodon.social/111997459596970404

When does industry reporting cross into the realm of fake news?

This by @RailwayGazette is close https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/hydrogen-tram-development-project-underway/65988.article

Rendering shown *edits out the overhead wires* that *are present outside the Kulturhistorisches Museum in Görlitz* (see pics) - presence of wires eliminates the need for a hydrogen tram

Oh and the piece conveniently ignores the gauge issue in Görlitz as well 🤦♂️

My piece about this: https://jonworth.eu/a-hydrogen-tram-for-gorlitz-about-the-worst-idea-i-can-imagine/

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goerlitz_Kulturhistorisches_Museum_07.jpg

Ah. I’ve cracked it. SNCF has opened sales *for international trains only* to France this summer

If in France - shock horror! 😳 - you’d change onto another TGV… well they’ve not thought of that and those still aren’t bookable

The only thing more stupid than opening bookings in blocks like this?

Yep, different blocks for different types of trains 🤦♂️

The video is a bit nauseating, but the crux - that cycling in Germany is 'normalized but marginalized' is spot on. It sums it up well I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjTx2ALomfc

OK, given I am outside the UK, don't play football and don't have kids, this one had passed me by until now

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/brexit-tackle-politics-children-football

A “Brexit means Brexit" tackle “is a tackle that doesn’t get the ball, only takes out the player”. Now you shouldn't *ever* do that in football, but it's just perfect 🙂

I don’t quite understand how this cat ended up so attached to me

Josette sort of came with the old house we bought in Ravières. She lived semi stray in the years between owners of the house

And now she sits on top of me purring loudly for hours 😊 At least we’re giving her a better life in her older years!

@NeonPurpleStar @raphaelweyland Well give them their due, Athens-Thessaloniki *sort of works*. The rest, rail wise, doesn’t.

@raphaelweyland Greece has no international trains any more. It's essentially impossible.

Athens-Thessaloniki - train
Thessaloniki-Sofia - bus
Sofia-Vidin-Craiova-Budapest-Zagred - train

Basically through Beograd it's all buses

or take a ferry Patras-Brindisi, then train through Italy?

SCREAMING

PUT UP A WIRE

A hydrogen TRAM is about the most stupid thing imaginable. If you’ve got enough traffic to justify a tram, you have got enough traffic to justify an overhead wire

WHY DO WE KEEP DOING THIS SORT OF CRAP? REALLY 🤬

https://www.elektroauto-news.net/news/goerlitz-erste-wasserstoff-strassenbahn

So my new, much improved, map of all the #EiffelTowers in the world is progressing

So far 105 towers are in the new map (c. 200 more to go - moving them from my original blog post)

Original post 👇
https://jonworth.eu/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-eiffel-tower-replicas-and-derivatives-geoguessr/

New zoomable map, with tower details when clicking pins 👇
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#3/27.14/17.58

O'Leary's latest idea for Ryanair?

NO!

It's a rail firm that's pioneering stand-up seats (sounds like a contradiction, but the picture shows it)

These extra high capacity areas are in Regiojet's CRRC Chinese built EMUs that starting running in Czechia today

Here's a story - in Polish - about the launch: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/regiojet-rozpoczal-testowanie-chinskiego-pociagu-sirius--117273.html

This is from 2019, but somehow cropped up in my feed. It’s a good read.

Related - as Don Norman used to work for Apple - I’m always struck by how I keep discovering functions on Apple devices *because they’re not obvious*, and then tell myself “damn I must be inefficient as I don’t know them”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me

Sure. Why not build a A380 covered in flowers? 🤷♂️

https://maps.app.goo.gl/jjf2fXqD3SNNF3dXA