Simon

I really wonder who wrote that, there's literally 3 to 4 storey houses around the corner from the planned development

I guess they have been successful insofar that those complaints were made 8 years ago, and the Bebauungsplan they're talking about hasn't been passed or even the draft published yet

reading nimby complaints about new housing is too funny

"buildings too massive and tall. 4 storeys, here??"
"social housing? does this really fit the neighborhood?"
"we'll not only have car and tram noise, but a shadowy garden bc of the new blocks!"
"only good thing is the new underground parking"

YouTube video by Bonneville66 Dagen H, 3 september 1967, del 1

youtu.be/pVR85jpTcn8 mooi video

Haha yeah, found it :D

very west German uni planning, building a huge campus in the middle of nowhere. see also TU Dortmund, Ruhruni Bochum...

and unlike Stuttgart, there's only one S-Bahn line to the Dortmund campus 🥲

After 186 years no more domestic loco-hauled trains in the Netherlands

fun to see one of my very first maps in the wild without proper attribution 😌

do you mean Hallöchen lol

Wappen der Freiburger Partnerstadt Lviv Da Wetter und Verkehr dem kunstvollen Pflastermosaik über die Jahre zugesetzt haben, werden es die Fachleute des Garten- und Tiefbauamtes im April ausbauen und in der Pflasterei erneuern.

renovation www.freiburg.de/pb/2386408.h...

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- 1 cyclist in Legelshurst

In Kehl I needed police to block the doors and prevent people from blocking them because they were still trying to squeeze in since I was the last train for the next 90 minutes. People even tried to push the policemen away, crazy scenes, insane…

From December next year it's a half-hourly RE all day with the new part-double-deckers. Still longer trains would be nice. More frequency probably impossible thru new Stuttgart Hbf

Yeah two weeks ago I was there it was off too I guess they turn them off for the winter?

really cute
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overcrowded trains and platform at line 13's Montparnasse - Bienvenüe station. I decided against taking that line

Departing M4 train at Réaumur Sébastopol station, interchange with line M3

Église Saint-Ambroise with green space in front

Streetscape at Square Saint-Ambroise with bikes, trees and small shops. There were also a lot of bike lanes in the area

I had planned to visit more lines, but it was getting late and I also wanted to go to a queer book shop (Les mots à la bouche, can recommend!), so went there from Montparnasse. Made the mistake of trying to take M13 during rush-hour. Luckily the recently fully automated M4 wasn't as overcrowded 🥲

And that was my short day trip to Paris that I used my last Interrail day for (had one left over from my trip to the Baltics in August). It isn't far by TGV, but otherwise you can't go there for only 30€ return 🥲

overcrowded trains and platform at line 13's Montparnasse - Bienvenüe station. I decided against taking that line

Departing M4 train at Réaumur Sébastopol station, interchange with line M3

Église Saint-Ambroise with green space in front

Streetscape at Square Saint-Ambroise with bikes, trees and small shops. There were also a lot of bike lanes in the area

I had planned to visit more lines, but it was getting late and I also wanted to go to a queer book shop (Les mots à la bouche, can recommend!), so went there from Montparnasse. Made the mistake of trying to take M13 during rush-hour. Luckily the recently fully automated M4 wasn't as overcrowded 🥲

T13 tram-train at the crossover at Saint-Germain-en-Laye station

Tram-train at Saint-Cyr tram stop

Two Transilien N trains at Saint-Cyr station, I took the right PAZI train, an all stations service to Montparnasse

After a short walk around the castle, I took the T13 tram-train to Saint-Cyr. It runs along the former Grand Ceinture rail loop and is an extension of a short Transilien shuttle that ran since 2004. T13 certainly has better connections, to both RER A, C and Transilien N, albeit shorter trains

😂😂 nice. Aber jetzt mal mit der S1 ab Osterburken

[Décryptage] : Les codes missions des RER A déchiffrés Bien qu’ils puissent paraître incompréhensibles pour nos voyageurs, ils donnent en réalité de précieuses informations sur les trajets effectués par votre train à tous les agents chargés de l’élaborati...

one for @clem.paris 😬 but they do explain it a bit like on the blog haha malignea.fr/les-codes-mi...

Yes it should haha

Finde ja solche vertikalen Anzeigen mit allen bedienten Stationen wären auch was für deutsche Bahnhöfe

An RER A - ZEUS mission (Boissy-Saint-Léger - Saint-Germain-en-Laye) arriving at La Défense - Grande Arche

View across to the other platform with a city-bound RER A train

A TERI train at the platform and a screen showing its stopping pattern (all stations to Poissy). Also, it shows when the next train to the other branches are

A screen showing "No departure from this platform" and a traditional screen showing the next departures towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Cergy and Poissy

I find RER A pretty cool. Not just the huge trains, big stations, but also "small" things like these well-animated screens showing the stopping pattern of each train.

Easier than trying to decipher the mission code (is ZEUS right for me, or should I take TERI instead?)

Yeah no, I find the mission code system really interesting :D it's just so different from what I'm used to

Bridge crossing the Seine between Nanterre and Le Vésinet

Aboveground suburban station at Le Vésinet - Le Pecq

Big double-decker RER train sitting empty at Saint-Germain-en-Laye station

The royal castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with a pretty garden

For me it was ZEUS all the way to Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Incidentally from Nanterre-Uni this train runs on the first railway line in Paris, having opened in 1828.

The terminus itself is an unassuming 70s underground box, but I went up the escalator to "castle bus station" and wasn't disappointed

An RER A - ZEUS mission (Boissy-Saint-Léger - Saint-Germain-en-Laye) arriving at La Défense - Grande Arche

View across to the other platform with a city-bound RER A train

A TERI train at the platform and a screen showing its stopping pattern (all stations to Poissy). Also, it shows when the next train to the other branches are

A screen showing "No departure from this platform" and a traditional screen showing the next departures towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Cergy and Poissy

I find RER A pretty cool. Not just the huge trains, big stations, but also "small" things like these well-animated screens showing the stopping pattern of each train.

Easier than trying to decipher the mission code (is ZEUS right for me, or should I take TERI instead?)

A single seven car Francilien train as a RER E - mission NOVY (Villiers-sur-Marne - Nanterre-la-Folie) arriving at Rosny - Bois-Perrier station

La Défense - Grande Arche RER E station with a very large island platform

Benches, staircases and vending machines on the island platform at La Défense - Grande Arche

A partly-double deck RER NG train on a NOCY mission (Chelles-Gournay - Nanterre-la-Folie) arriving at La Défense - Grande Arche

RER E was also extended last year, to the west. It now has its own underground cave station at La Défense, relieving RER A and M1. Surprisingly, my train from Rosny was a short single-stock Francilien train. I thought these only operated on Transilien lines, the other RER E I saw were doubledeckers

A central crossroads in the underground maze at Châtelet Les Halles with signs pointing to lines RER A, B, D and metro 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14

An MP14 train like on line M14, but here with a driver, at line 11's Châtelet terminus. It's three tracks with an island platform for departure

The new aboveground station near Coteaux Beauclair station

Rosny - Bois-Perrier station, the line's new terminus. Surprisingly to me, it doesn't look too modern compared to the older stations

After successfully navigating the labyrinth at Châtelet, I travelled the whole length of line 11, extended to Rosny-Bois-Perrier last year.

Also already quite busy, around half the people on my train travelled past Mairie des Lilas, which had been the terminus for 87 years.

Châtelet station on line M14 with an automated train arriving

Inside of the relatively new MP14 trains on line M14 at Saint-Denis - Pleyel station. It got crowded very fast

Given that M14 was built to relieve pressure from the already saturated M1 and RER A, it felt already quite congested in the central Paris section.

Connection to an airport and soon also to the Grand Paris Express lines probably are not helping in this regard. M1+RER A+M14 relieve line when?