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We had an 85% reduction in disruptions and it is not true that everything stops if there is a disruption as was suggested here. The whole point of the Utrecht reconstruction being that one corridor may fail, but all the other corridors keep running.

Kapazitaet gibt es fuer etwa 100 abfahrten pro stunde. Da kommt man richtung 1.500 am Tag. Heute sind es bis 75 abfahrten pro stunde. Also 1.000-1.100 am Tag.

The busiest corridor thus allows for max 24 IC departures for Amsterdam at track 5/7. Currently we’re at 14, so still room for growth

One of the five corridors terminates in Utrecht (max 12 departures/h on tracks 1-4). One “macht kopf” (max 16 departures/h on tracks 8-12). The other eight tracks are for the remaining three through corridors. (Max 12 departures/h per track).

De tussen-neus-en-lippen-door opmerking over marktwerking in het busvervoer van @sheilas.bsky.social leidt me een beetje af van haar voor de rest uitstekende column in de #volkskrant. Een provinciaal busbedrijf oprichten is niet het antwoord op een budgetprobleem voor inherent onrendabele diensten.

Frequency matters, proof number 256384648

Bologna Mazzini, avg weekday, boarding/alighting

24 trains /day, 1-2 tph*dir
2019, Nov: 264 / 335
2019, Jul: 257 / 287

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55 trains/day, 3-4 tph*dir
2024, Nov: 669 / 764
2025, Jul: 673 / 734

Users have been multiplied by around 2-2.5 (+150-ish%)

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

Binari wird auf der Tafel am Bahnhof von Tirano mit Binärdateien übersetzt.

Achtung, immer die richtige Quellsprache einstellen wenn ihr einen Onlinetranslator benutzt. #binary #tirano

Ja dann fragen wir doch mal die Töchter:

Probably the worst station in Europe

De energie armoede is ook heel knap gedaan

I know it’s not from automatic for the people, but couldn’t resist

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Uberlin [Official Lyrics]

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Why share photo’s of cars when you are writing about houses?

‘It’ll be fine!’ Meet the visionary who invented the car: the Stephen Collins cartoon Random members of the public will pilot these things – it’ll be fine

Everyone - @stephencollins.bsky.social has nailed it

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Good to hear that the trains were behaving today. Next time in Utrecht, do stay for a beer.

Let us just agree that the experiment has failed

I would agree that this illustrates the complete and utter failure of EU policy concerning privatisation of railway services. Thus far we saw state companies of different mediterranean or nordic countries competing against each other. Now it is different state companies within the same country..

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

Reducing car use has other benefits, such as lower emissions and support for denser development, but the need to use space efficiently is the key thing that no technology will change.👏

A graph of long-term traffic levels in the UK since 1949. It's gone up. Lots.

A graphic showing that cars have got wider, and this leaves less space for road users including cyclists

"I cycled to school when I was a kid, and we didn't need fancy cycle lanes."

Yeah, but there's three times more traffic than there was in 1973..

Twice as many cars as there was in 1982..

..36% more traffic on urban minor roads than there was in 1994..

..and cars were *way* smaller, and lighter.

Ja, wir ersticken in ÖPNV!

So that’s what’s at the end of the rainbow… 🌈 🚆 🛤️

Nederland is verdeeld, maar diep vanbinnen zijn we allemaal van PFAS. Of je hier nu geboren bent of pas woont: PFAS zit in ons bloed. En dat verbindt ons. Bestel dit nieuwe en unieke shirt nu: https://shop.speld.nl/products/shirt-diep-vanbinnen-zijn-we-allemaal-pfas-de-speld-bio-katoen

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today.

Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now.

Civil duty to see it.
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Karte mit farbcodierten Interrail-Ländern: Grün, orange, rot

Wo lohnt sich eigentlich #Interrail?

Eine Frage, die immer wieder auftaucht: Welche Länder sind perfekt für den Bahnpass – und wo seid ihr mit normalen Tickets besser dran?

Schauen wir uns die Sache einmal an 🧵

Best summary of 21st century politics: Überall da, wo diese kulturpolitischen Debatten einzelne Gegenstände zu Lebenswirklichkeiten hochstilisieren und dann Lebenswirklichkeiten scheinbar unvereinbar gegeneinander stellen, geht es im Kern ganz häufig um soziale Fragen

Worst thing that can happen after a much delayed journey through Germany is to get stuck in Emmerich for another 45 minutes. The only thing the RE19 needs to do is to get customers across the border, where you have frequent connections.

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Blijkbaar staat nergens in de concessie dat de wifi ook moet werken. Misschien, heel misschien heeft dat er ook iets mee te maken? Iets kritischere verslaggeving was op zijn plaats geweest.