It’s quite rare that anyone organises a kind of protest for the re-opening of an international railway line, but that is exactly what is happening on Sunday 14 April at Breisach-Volgelsheim, the part of the Freiburg-Colmar cross border railway line that is missing. You can find out all about the […]
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As was the case in 2022 and 2023, I will be organising and attending a variety of events throughout #CrossBorderRail in 2024. Although the 6 non-EU countries in South East Europe are my focus for 2024, I am nevertheless making a rather large diversion to Tallinn at the start of […]
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During my #CrossBorderRail projects in 2022 and 2023 I sent postcards throughout the trips. In 2022 European Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean even received a postcard from me every single day of the project! For #CrossBorderRail 2024 I am going to be repeating the postcards, with a slightly different format. […]
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You have to give credit to the people that have kept the campaign for the re-activation of the Freiburg – Breisach – Volgelsheim – Colmar railway line alive. For a decade they’ve been campaigning, and the next step is a day of action on 14th April – where they aim […]
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The motivation for the whole #CrossBorderRail project was to assess why there had been such meagre progress fixing the 15 missing links Michael Cramer had proposed in his 2015 report. Only 1 of the 15 from Cramer’s list – Selb-Plößberg (Germany) to Aš (Czechia) – has so far been fixed. […]
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Once in a while someone gives you an idea so simple you wonder why you never thought of it yourself. “Jon, did you ever think of making a board game to explain the problems with international rail in Europe?” the producer of a documentary I am working on asked me […]
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My 2023 projects might not have had the one-off “wow, some dude is crossing all of Europe’s borders in one go!” effect that 2022 had, but looking back the past 12 months have both been a lot of fun and has been politically interesting too. After the 83* borders crossed […]
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The #CrossBorderRail finale for 2023 starts on 17th October. I am heading first from Berlin to Slovenia, from there to Karlsruhe for the BAG Mobilität & Verkehr of the German Grüne, and then head to Spain and Portugal (to speak at the Interreg annual event in Santiago de Compostela). There […]
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This one has been long in the planning, and we’ve now only finally got everything together a week ahead, but I am happy to announce the #CrossBorderRail event at the Slovenian Railway Museum, Ljubljana, on Wednesday 18 October from 17:00 CEST (map). The event is organised together with the British […]
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My latest #CrossBorderRail project starts on Wednesday 30th August – you can find out all about the project in the background page here. In the subsequent two months there are going to be at least 27 “travel days”. Each travel day will have: A live blog on this website (you […]
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