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Ahhh 😊
This is the sort of thing that makes me happy to be back in Germany
Störtebeker Pilsener. A really good pils. For just €1,29 at my local REWE
If only you could get anything like this, for anything close to this price, in Bourgogne
This piece - found via @smveerman - is really good
It explains that the *total number of TGV seats available* has dropped by 14% from a high point around 2012, which is not as steep as the 22% drop in the total number of TGV trains (because the % double deck is higher today)
What the piece cannot answer is if the existing trains could be more efficiently deployed… https://www.trans-missions.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Graphique-evolution-du-nombre-de-sieges-TGV-768x502.png
Of course there’s something especially grim that *the worst* #CrossBorderRail ticketing absurdities I can find are TO STRASBOURG.
Seat of the European Parliament.
Sums up the whole sorry mess.
How many MEPs or staff - and I know some do go by train - have been fleeced as a result of this insane ticket bug?
Ok. @Lenny_du_Nord has beaten my already bad example
He’s found €262,40 for a 9km rail trip! 🤯
The difference between Stockholm-Strasbourg and Stockholm-Kehl (and Kehl-Strasbourg is 9km)
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Introduction and summary videos
All the #CrossBorderRail daily videos are on my Peertube channel
Latest photos
Today’s background
Detail to be added.
The background for the Autumn 2023 project can be found here.
Route – with the focus on today’s border crossing
The full zoomable and scrollable map, including today’s route, is on uMap here.
Photo Rights
William Murphy
GREAT VICTORIA STREET TRAIN STATION [BELFAST]-117859
June 18, 2016
CC BY-SA 2.0
