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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-21 at 16:04

"Ligne Paris-Marseille : Trenitalia annonce quatre TGV chaque jour à partir de la mi-juin" / Trenitalia to launch 4 daily round-trips Paris-Marseille from June: https://www.liberation.fr/economie/transports/ligne-paris-marseille-trenitalia-annonce-quatre-tgv-chaque-jour-a-partir-de-la-mi-juin-20250121_NO7W23COWNBKDGJPNTVM7CEFYE/

[#]Trenitalia #railways #CrossBorderRail

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-19 at 18:17

[#]SilentSunday #Sihlsee #FrozenLake

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-17 at 09:17

Updated road rules in Switzerland since 2025 now explicitly forbid noise-making activities (https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/laerm-von-auspuffanlagen-bundesrat-sagt-autoposern-den-kampf-an), in particular intentional burst noise using the exhaust pipe is subject to a 10'000 CHF fine: https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/fr/home/themes/verkehrsregeln/neue-verkehrsregeln.html

Halving of the car traffic on lake promenades as found in Zurich or Geneva as a result? 😎

Noise radar experiment deemed successful, now pending a legal framework to move forward. #TrafficNoise #Autoposer

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-14 at 08:34

The new open data website looks more bloated, but also nice gems in the recent integrations: https://prim.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/fr/reutilisations

A big shout out to @winy for live reporting of disruptions on the Paris metro/tram/RER network: https://ratpstatus.fr/

The project also records historical disruptions since April 2024: https://github.com/wincelau/ratpstatus/tree/main/datas

From a quick browse on the website, I'd bet that "forgotten luggage" is the most common disruption cause on metro lines. 🧳

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-14 at 08:22

Browsing RATP's open data repository, and there are gems! https://data.ratp.fr/pages/voscreations/

10 years old, but someone (Vincent Barbaresi) loaded the Paris metro network graph into git: https://github.com/vbarbaresi/MetroGit

[#]RailwayGeek #git #RATP

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-11 at 18:39

Voyons si la loi des titres de Betteridge s'applique: "Sommes-nous toujours "amoureux" de la bagnole ?" https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/un-monde-nouveau/un-monde-nouveau-du-samedi-19-octobre-2024-9841907

Première question: "Quelle était votre première voiture?" - c'est mal parti. 🤔 Le reste du débat assez banal finalement avec quelques arguments classiques pour et contre.

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-11 at 14:08

Latest plans towards sustainable #urbanism in #Zurich, one street at a time. 🥳 https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/geroldstrasse-zuerich-neugestaltung-als-begegnungszone-313939937362

Got me nerded into looking at the archive of architect/urbanist plans! 🤓 https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/planen-und-bauen/projekte-und-ausschreibungen/oeffentliche-ausschreibungen-auflage/ausschreibungen-im-strassenraum/oeffentliche-planauflagen.html

via @velomenschen @velorouten

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-09 at 08:27

A69 : le droit de l’environnement sert-il encore à quelque chose ? https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/environnement/tribune-a69-le-droit-de-l-environnement-sert-il-encore-a-quelque-chose_7001981.html

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-06 at 17:49

Public transport is now free in Geneva for students up to 25 years old, and 50% discounted for retirees: https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/2025/article/geneve-transports-publics-gratuits-pour-les-jeunes-50-de-rabais-pour-les-seniors-28743053.html 🎉 Happy new year! #FreePublicTransport #Geneva #mobility

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2025-01-01 at 16:18

Happy new year from the #SkiingOnRails train! 🥂🎉

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 15:11

Lots of frost as we stroll past Dijon. Also lots of noise of frost falling from the overhead wires. ☃️

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 14:40

4. The Frecciarossa trains operated by Trenitalia aren't shown at all on the Gares & Connections app nor website, which should clearly be illegal.

5. Speaker announcements were made on average once per train, 20 minutes before departure, only in French. Great again for #a11y 🤦‍♂️

6. The small screens in front of each platform worked though.

2/2 #SNCFail

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 14:31

Fast forward to this afternoon, where a failure in the platform-indication systems triggered a bit of a mess in Paris Gare de Lyon. The fallback was a QR code on all screens, which wasn't great either...

1. Screen explanation only in French.

2. The QR code points to a website that fails to load (https://garesetconnexions-online.azure-api.net/dynamic-qr-code), and redirects to an app to download. Not great for #a11y

3. After downloading a 40MB app (size on Android), there was no platform information either!

1/2 #SNCFail

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 14:06

Back to Massy TGV, where @jon will be delighted to know that the Northbound platform already has a waiting area ready for #CrossChannelRail operations! It must be the gloomiest platform in the world where such fancy lights have been placed.

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 13:57

Back to Bordeaux, where someone forgot a pink luggage. After many speaker announcements in French threatening to use the police... they send the police, who just sent a dog to sniff it and got someone to move the luggage. Proof that there's no need to block traffic for 2 hours for security theater, even if you're called SNCF.

However, number of announcements made in English: none. The name didn't sound French, but regardless it would be good to assume non-French passengers forget luggage too!

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 13:51

More of Bordeaux's pedestrian area. Nice to see a wide car-free zone on the river bank (next to a 2x2 lane street) rather than a multi-lane highway at the waterfront!

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-29 at 13:39

Took a walk around #Bordeaux 's train station. At first it was typical French: narrow sidewalks that barely fit a trash bin. Or a ridiculous sign before a scaffolding telling you to cross, without any safe crossing. At this point better remove the sidewalk altogether and make it a zone 20. At least there was barely any traffic.

But things started to improve towards the city center!

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-28 at 16:54

Buses, storm, cycling lanes between Bayonne and Hendaye.

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-28 at 16:07

Fortunately, the public transport (mostly bus) network in the Bayonne-Hendaye urban area is fairly good. The buses are modern too, most of them electric. Unfortunately, the timetables are quite random. Sometimes they are this close to following a regular cadence, but still drift a minute or two per hour (in inconsistent directions).

More frequent services are planned a week from now, let's see if they introduce some more cadence. 🤞

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Written by Cycling on Rails on 2024-12-23 at 18:52

Not Bordeaux: when a train station is poorly designed so it's a 20 minute traffic jam every time a train arrives. 😅🚙🛻🚗🚕 @apicultor

There are buses though, but most are scheduled only every 30 minutes or less, and stuck in the traffic jam too. Once away from the station, the bus ride went smoothly. 👍

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