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Turning it around – could you make the use of Berlin’s streets better for everyone?

That the removal of just one car parking space can in the future be enough to stop a bicycle infrastructure project in Berlin has of course led to justifiable howls of critique. A car friendly transport policy is what you get from a city administration run by the CDU (and[Read More…]

16.06.2023 1 comment

Strasbourg? Karlsruhe? No – Saarbrücken? Where the future Paris-Berlin ICE stops is not the issue

There are two high-ish speed routes between Paris Est and Frankfurt(Main)Hbf by train – the shorter one in terms of route-km but with less high speed infrastructure via Saarbrücken (mapped here), and the 70km longer one but with more high speed lines via Strasbourg and Karlsruhe (mapped here). Both give[Read More…]

14.06.2023 1 comment

The personal is political. Have you ever been to Seifhennersdorf, Zgorzelec or Ormenio?

A Friday evening in early June. I am in a compartment in a delayed EuroCity train from München to Klagenfurt, and I am helping one of my fellow passengers in the compartment with their onward connections due to the delay, and conversation turns to broader railway issues, and I explain[Read More…]

14.06.2023 1 comment

Explaining complexity in my usual way – with a diagram! This time: Deutschlandticket

1st May heralds a major change in public transport in Germany: the introduction of the Deutschlandticket. I’ve explained where to buy it before – but that’s quite simple. What about where it’s valid? That’s more complex. And the way I explain complexity? With diagrams of course! All the versions of[Read More…]

01.05.2023 3 comments

DeutschlandTicket as a tourist? Buy it from mo.pla

From 1st May 2023 there is a new, flat-rate ticket for public transport in Germany: the DeutschlandTicket. €49 per month, for unlimited use of regional public transport in the whole of the country. That means buses, trams, metros, S-Bahn and regional trains. Or the other way around, it means everything[Read More…]

30.04.2023 4 comments

New trains for France-Germany regional services to be delayed 2 years – now 2026 not 2024

Ordered in 2019, and presented with great fanfare by Malu Dreyer in 2021, the new Régiolis diesel-electric hybrid trains were due to enter service on France-Germany regional routes in December 2024. And now – it quietly slipped out – that date has been pushed to December 2026, according to the[Read More…]

29.04.2023 0 comments

Crowd-funding for #CrossBorderRail 2023 – all of Germany’s borders – is now open!

In the summer of 2022 with the #CrossBorderRail project I crossed all of the EU’s internal borders that you can cross by train. This video sums up what I discovered: Rather than one huge project, this year I am going to be doing a series of smaller projects to document[Read More…]

15.03.2023 0 comments

Quoted in the FT “‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains”

Before we can really scale up night trains in Europe, someone (other than ÖBB!) has to order some new trains. This is the argument I have been making for some time on my Trains for Europe site. So it was good to have the FT examine the subject. The piece[Read More…]

13.03.2023 0 comments

Will there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Channel Tunnel? Probably not

Basel, Switzerland. The latest city for which a direct train to London has been proposed. It is unlikely to get it, as are Geneva, Köln (CDU-Green NRW coalition agreement Page 132), Frankfurt and Bordeaux. And Marseille and Lyon are unlikely to get their direct trains to London back. There are[Read More…]

13.03.2023 7 comments

Meeting Michael Peterson with Die Zeit, and quoted by CNN about shift from planes to trains

I was one of three regular railway passengers asked by German weekly paper Die Zeit to meet head of DB Fernverkehr Michael Peterson to discuss Deutsche Bahn’s current woes. The interview appeared in the printed paper on 9 March 2023, and is online here (paywalled). “Worth: Den Ärger, den ich häufig in[Read More…]

09.03.2023 0 comments

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Turning it around – could you make the use of Berlin’s streets better for everyone?

Strasbourg? Karlsruhe? No – Saarbrücken? Where the future Paris-Berlin ICE stops is not the issue

The personal is political. Have you ever been to Seifhennersdorf, Zgorzelec or Ormenio?

Explaining complexity in my usual way – with a diagram! This time: Deutschlandticket

DeutschlandTicket as a tourist? Buy it from mo.pla

New trains for France-Germany regional services to be delayed 2 years – now 2026 not 2024

Crowd-funding for #CrossBorderRail 2023 – all of Germany’s borders – is now open!

Quoted in the FT “‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains”

Will there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Channel Tunnel? Probably not

Meeting Michael Peterson with Die Zeit, and quoted by CNN about shift from planes to trains

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Why the European Commission’s cross border pilot projects are a good idea – but not the way the Commission communicates it

So party politics did not work. It’s time to solve Europe’s railway problems some other way

Why bother with sensible transport policies when you can propose a Maglev instead?

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A diagram to explain EU cross border rail passengers rights – and to push for political change

Germany’s 49 Euro Ticket Deutschlandticket – a FAQ

How to use Deutsche Bahn’s De Connect tickets for train trips between Germany and London

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Budapest to Belgrade by train – from 28 November 2023

Why DB Reiseasukunft on the web is still my main train planning tool

When the only way from Wissembourg to Strasbourg is… through Germany (with 3 changes of train)

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Quoted in the FT “‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains”

Meeting Michael Peterson with Die Zeit, and quoted by CNN about shift from planes to trains

Quoted in Berliner Zeitung about the Brenner pilot project

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