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If COVID is now endemic, it’s time to discuss permanent changes to the way we behave – like wear-a-mask zones on long distance trains

Christian Drosten has today stated that the COVID pandemic is over, and the virus is now endemic. That has led, rather predictably, to the demand that all Corona protection measures be lifted in Germany – FDP Justice Minister Buschmann was the swiftest to make this demand today. But that COVID[Read More…]

26.12.2022 1 comment

The 49 Euro Ticket / Deutschlandticket – the ticket that no one really wants?

Back in the summer of 2022 it was party time – almost literally – for passengers on German public transport. For the months of June, July and August it cost just 9 Euro a month, flat rate, to use regional and local public transport anywhere in Germany (basically pretty much[Read More…]

26.12.2022 1 comment

Deutschlandticket – 49 Euro Ticket – FAQ

Meine Mastodon Feeds sind voll mit Fragen, wie das neue 49 Euro Ticket (auch als Deutschlandticket bekannt) für den öffentlichen Nahverkehr in Deutschland funktioniert. Deshalb werde ich in diesem Beitrag versuchen, alle häufig gestellten Fragen zum Ticket zu beantworten. Alle Angaben entsprechen dem Stand vom 26. Dezember 2022 – sobald[Read More…]

26.12.2022 3 comments

Mapping all of Europe’s #CrossBorderRail lines

In the summer of 2022 I crossed all of the internal borders of the European Union (and Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein) you can cross by train. That ended up with 95 borders crossed (you can find all the routes I took here). But that is long way away from crossing[Read More…]

23.12.2022 1 comment

European railways and the implementation gap

I was recording an episode of the Human Risk podcast with Christian Hunt this week – basically about humans and railways – and the conversation came back to what I think I ought to call the implementation gap in railway policy. “When I moved to München“, Christian was telling me,[Read More…]

18.12.2022 1 comment

Why Interrail is structurally incapable of fixing the seat reservation problems with its passes

During my #CrossBorderRail project in the summer of 2022 I needed to take regional trains Badajoz-Merida and Merida-Madrid in Spain, and these trains require compulsory seat reservations. Buying a combined ticket and reservation online for these trains is no problem, but Interrail pass holders need just a seat reservation. At[Read More…]

02.12.2022 4 comments

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Why are Europe’s railways a mess? Our public diagnosis of the problem falls short

Another day, another earnest column in a broadsheet newspaper listing the problems with Europe’s railways – this time it’s Die Zeit. We should fly less, we need more high speed trains, we need more night trains, plans for more have come to nothing, why is infra investment in Germany so slow,[Read More…]

29.11.2022 3 comments

Bruxelles – Köln, and decision makers’ disconnection from reality

There is no international railway line I have travelled more often than Bruxelles – Köln. A good part of my life since my teenage years on language exchanges in the mid-1990s in Verviers and Lahnstein, through to professional life today in my early forties as a self employed person living[Read More…]

27.11.2022 1 comment

Mons-Aulnoye – Belgium and France close a cross border passenger railway line

It was one of the most surreal experiences of the #CrossBorderRail project: to be the only passenger on an international train for its entire trip. It even made it into my summary video. It happened on Day 1, at the Belgium-France border, between Mons and Aulnoye-Aymeries – and you can[Read More…]

11.11.2022 1 comment

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I ought to work more on European railway topics – but how?

For the period spanning roughly 2015 to 2019, Brexit was my prime political preoccupation. Analysing what would happen next, and doing plenty of media work about the twists and turns of the sorry saga. When Boris Johnson won the December 2019 General Election it was time to step away from[Read More…]

19.10.2022 8 comments

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If COVID is now endemic, it’s time to discuss permanent changes to the way we behave – like wear-a-mask zones on long distance trains

The 49 Euro Ticket / Deutschlandticket – the ticket that no one really wants?

Deutschlandticket – 49 Euro Ticket – FAQ

Mapping all of Europe’s #CrossBorderRail lines

European railways and the implementation gap

Why Interrail is structurally incapable of fixing the seat reservation problems with its passes

Why are Europe’s railways a mess? Our public diagnosis of the problem falls short

Bruxelles – Köln, and decision makers’ disconnection from reality

Mons-Aulnoye – Belgium and France close a cross border passenger railway line

I ought to work more on European railway topics – but how?

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