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Grata che separa l'autostazione dal marciapiede della stazione ferroviaria

Purtroppo però, oltre a non esserci nessuna pensilina per la pioggia, hanno anche aggiunto questa grata tra il marciapiede della stazione e l'autostazione, forzando le persone a fare il giro per uscire. Quindi, direi che il risultato è una stazione meno intermodale rispetto a quella precedente :/

Piccola banchina centrale per i bus

Fermata laterale con una corriera della linea G01 ferma

Ampio spazio stile parcheggio per le navette scolastiche

Inizio dell'autostazione con vista sulla stazione ferroviaria e il piazzale adiacente

@chittimarco.bsky.social A proposito di design urbano... hanno appena aperto la nuova autostazione qui a Gorizia. Dimensioni grandi, ma necessarie per le varie navette scolastiche
Originariamente le fermate erano poste nel piazzale della stazione e, per le navette, sulla strada adiacente

Aaah, I see. Thanks for the info!

I still don't entirely understand why it was specifically the NL to be sued for this - most EU countries use the national operator for the vast majority of services, so what's the difference in the NL? Was it some odd procedural difference that somehow made it not ok?

Fair, this is all highly anecdotal anyways - I'd love to have more concrete data. Still, I do believe grid unreliability is overall more of an issue in the US than the EU and that may explain some of these design choices

I believe this results in high grid costs which then leads to cost-cutting elsewhere (e.g. overusage of overhead power lines, even in urban areas) which then leads to overall grid unreliability. That's probably why generator mandates on ap. blocks have appeared, to counter excessive blackouts

My theory based on talking with folks from the US is that home generators in SFHs are a lot more common there than Europe, due to grid unreliability which in turn is likely caused by a combination of sprawl (more wires serving fewer people) and excessive household grid connections

O i soliti 40 minuti di cambio a Monfalcone tra la linea per Gorizia e "la bassa" per Venezia via Cervignano... poi ho scoperto che spesso è più veloce prendere la corriera per l'areoporto e cambiare lì

There's one slight exception: the Udine-Cividale line has bilingual italian-friulian station name signs and trilingual in Cividale itself, whose station also has a multi-language train departure announcement. However, ownership is being transferred to RFI, so I expect these nice touches to disappear

I do wish we were that good at bilinguism in my part of Italy (Friuli Venezia Giulia), given we have several official languages. There are some bilingual signs in municipalities with strong slovenian/friulian minorities but nothing on trains or buses (aside from some bilingual timetables)

Fwiw it's not uncommon in continental Europe - Italy for example has several HSR lines shared with 200km/h-max IC trains and occasionally even regionals. But it's a compromise, and a terrible one for the UK to copy given its context of maxxed out capacity on the legacy network

Reading through some of the comments here, this at least makes me feel a bit better about being confused at what "suburbs" actually are - I too have noticed this term being used in all sorts of different ways in the (mostly NA-centred) urbanism discourse

Can confirm, as a local, I see quite a lot of freight trains to the port of Trieste, often from Austria (via Tarvisio border crossing), but also Slovenia (via the Opicina line). Freight is typically more frequent than pax trains here, esp on the Pontebbana line (Udine-Villach)

Considerably better than anything I've seen in Italy - we typically only have LCD displays which are hard to read from far away, and with way too many different pages to scroll through, so if you've missed some info you end up having to stare at it for 1-2 minutes

A picture of a Desiro ML train interior, showing the door vestibule area with the two displays, a LCD one off to the side and an LED one above the stairs to the seating area

Closeup of the LCD display showing the next stops of the train

Huge fan of the displays on the ÖBB Desiro MLs - good combo of a large LED displays with essential info that can be read from far away + LCD display with lots of info, showing the next few stops and connection info when approaching a station (trains + buses)

Yeah, we have that here in Gorizia for the INT (international) bus - the TTS completely mispronounces Nova Gorica, a mistake which generally sends shivers down the spine of every Gorizia resident since it's so common. Not a great look for the buses to get this wrong!

In FVG we never had magnetic tickets, paper tickets were always the type that gets punched in order to be validated. Now bus systems in the main provinces are getting contactless tap readers too, though that's not fully implemented yet. And of course there's also the app

Also, OAO has a *strong* big city bias - nobody's gonna bother running to a 100-200k city when they could serve large touristy areas (e.g. Venice) - despite these places obviously being big enough to warrant frequent LD trains!

If anything it's made things worse - Germany has good pax rights but in Italy for example if your Frecciarossa is late you can't get on an Italo (or viceversa)
And Trenitalia wanting to compete with SNCF was what killed off the Venice-Paris night trains

Germany is Better at Transit than Many Germans Give it Credit For. A positive post on one of the first countries to come to mind when people mention public transportation.

My opinions on Germany’s transit and why it’s better than most give it credit for:

open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

This is a topic I'm considering expanding on in a longer form as it feels like these days Italy's getting praised on railways more than it actually deserves - truth of the matter is, we're bad at anything but HSR and even that has its own set of issues (e.g. high prices leading to regional-hopping)

Can confirm as an Italian - German transit is an order of magniture better than ours. We're good at building infra, sure, but a DT electrified line with *maybe* 1tph at most isn't exactly ideal, and is a far too common sight even on major mainlines

I wonder how many Latin American countries use horizontal wall boxes too, given that I know at least in some of them there are Italian electrical influences (e.g. BTicino sockets). Unfortunately that's one of those things that are super hard to research without physically being there

The UK also uses metal boxes quite frequently (it could even be argued that they use them more than the US, at least for residential installs), it's an interesting practice that I'm not entirely against mostly for environmental reasons, but it does add its own set of installation considerations

Orario del servizio Micotra, con due treni al giorno per direzione

Ho degli amici in america a cui ho mostrato l'orario del servizio internazionale Udine-Villaco e mi hanno risposto con "this looks like an american commuter rail timetable", e... hanno ragione ma fa comunque male
(stessa cosa con i treni per la Slovenia poi, povera stazione di Opicina)

Unrelated to the video, but since the thumbnail has a 50A stove plug on it - I recently got ahold of one for my website (yay!), made by Leviton. Very interesting design, and I hadn't realised it used a regular double-gang box, I somehow assumed it needed a special one, but that makes a lot of sense

They're a great idea, yes! Those tend to be quite popular here in Europe (esp. Italy) since we tend to have lower amp services, so I'm super glad to see them making their way across the pond too

Once you do, please let me know! I can give you a whole tour of the area

The season where they went to Gorizia (and Veneto + FVG more generally) was soooo weird to watch as someone living there 😅

Truth be told given how often I've seen lifts out of service in italy it's an obsession I can understand... we're quite bad at accessibility