Oliver Blanthorn

Tridactyl developer

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2025-04-24 10:32:56

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@nprofile…c5n8 as someone who goes through Paris somewhat often it would be nice if they could sort out the middle mile
i wonder if they have any research to back their claim up
for the first mile i suspect almost everyone knows how to get to their nearest railway station
it does feel like an awfully convenient coincidence that the bit passengers want fixing is the part that doesn't really involve trains. except in france where it's a TER that stops well before the last TGV

2025-04-18 08:35:31

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@nprofile…c5n8 you should be able to untick it manually from the search. but i don't want to encourage you to use anything other than 12train
vivement que leur appli de merde soit entièrement remplacé
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2025-04-18 08:26:34

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@nprofile…c5n8 I'm sure this is zero consolation but for me the card disappeared automatically a few weeks/months after it expired. It really is a comically dreadful system and I just hope that everyone involved in its creation is never allowed anywhere near anything safety critical for a train
As an aside they seem to have fixed the "our computers can't handle multiple discounts" problem by hard-coding specific combinations of discount cards
You do have to admire the cowboyishness of it all
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2025-04-09 09:16:43

@nprofile…dwme Fedilab's "search cache" function is absolutely fantastic for finding toots that I know I've seen within the last few days
thank you for all your work on it ♥️

2025-04-08 18:41:44

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@nprofile…c5n8 does that mean they had to go to Ventimiglia and beyond to empty their loos?
Temple Mills might actually have been closer

2025-04-08 17:30:23

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@nprofile…c5n8 oh my god, no wonder they were haemorrhaging cash

2025-04-08 17:01:47

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@nprofile…c5n8 great article! it's really quite an exciting prospect.
> well, where is the rest of the maintenance capacity a rival might need? In Trenitalia’s case that would be Milan, where its Frecciarossa fleet is currently taken care of.
do you know what they used during the Lyon-Turin line closure and if they're still allowed to use it?

2025-04-05 09:00:19

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@nprofile…lpsz apologies for the English but the morning RJ131 with a change at Udine for Sistiana or whatever other seaside resort you pick looks fairly civilised :)

2025-04-04 09:22:09

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@nprofile…c5n8 i knew "no reservations on an LGV" sounded too good to be true
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2025-04-03 11:11:35

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@nprofile…c5n8 so both of the things the SNCF is good at are bad things to be good at
you are incorrigible, we need to give the SNCF credit for the good things it does well. the new TGV-M has really nicely designed lamps!

2025-04-03 10:34:38

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@nprofile…c5n8 i think it does a reasonable job at keeping (edit: national) tickets cheap, especially the Ouigos
i disagree with line speed because it doesn't maximise the speed its trains travel at, it uses TGVs in the wrong places, e.g. Toulouse -> Bordeaux and Nice -> Marseille
ps: i hope you enjoy the rest of your day/week arguing with the SNCF partisans once they discover your post :)

2025-04-03 07:26:12

https://www.ft.com/content/e025d7e6-512d-4e82-9c25-7900b94ac153
i try not to dedicate too much brain power to american reality tv stars but
thinking that (imports-exports)/imports ≈ tax
is so detached from reality that i can't get my head around it at all
here's hoping that this post is enough venting and i can stop thinking about it

2025-04-02 20:35:08

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@nprofile…c5n8 i guess it's a bit late now but have you considered getting one of these laser range finder things to measure room areas? it seems like consumer ones (<€40) can go up to 120m before they start to get stupidly expensive
rule of thumb seems to be ~1m² per person so if you find it gets past the 120m limit you know you have capacity for 10 double length ouigos...
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2025-04-01 09:00:54

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@nprofile…c5n8 it looks like a dedicated follower has already updated Wikipedia 😅
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2025-03-31 12:53:42

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@nprofile…c5n8 there's something really intellectually satisfying about bottlenecks in railways
from the report it seems like one of the main constraints stopping us running loads of trains through the channel tunnel is how quickly we can empty the toilets on those trains
once that's solved there's a critical wheel lathe and the fact that water supply to the depot means it takes 20 minutes to refill the tanks they use to wash the trains
these are not "dig a tunnel under the sea" difficult problems

2025-03-30 10:33:58

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@nprofile…c5n8 stupid question but have they even thought of it? does anyone have any idea how much it would cost compared to a domestic service?
i have only seen people suggest that we need to beg open access operators to stop there. but if their main case is "wider impact on the economy" a PSO seems the obvious approach to investigate.
AFAICT the javelins are already a PSO so there is precedent for it on HS1

2025-03-30 09:13:32

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@nprofile…c5n8 is there anything fundamentally stopping a PSO service running through the tunnel? because it sounds like that's what they actually want (for free)

2025-03-28 00:06:27

can't wait to watch 1,300 people get off a Ouigo and cram into one of these
https://www.laprovence.com/article/politique/7248816467594714/la-draisy-une-solution-complementaire-a-la-navette-sncf-entre-avignon-tgv-et-avignon-centre
paraphrased: "people have to wait ages, sometimes half an hour, between their TGV arriving and the shuttle into the town centre, and the last TGV of the day arrives after the shuttle has stopped running"
any idiot like me might be tempted to say, hmm, you need a better timetable. but luckily i am not in charge because really what they need is TINY TRAINS
@nprofile…c5n8 #GadgetBahn
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2025-03-27 11:36:49

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@nprofile…k2mh don't threaten me with a good time ;)
i could get you inhabited land area estimates for each constituency if that would be of interest to you. it's probably reusable for other stuff.
"population weighted median distance to post office" is doable if you can give me a list of post office locations. but less reusable.

2025-03-25 22:50:04

bit random but I've been happily using my population density map to follow along @nprofile…c5n8 's #CrossChannelRail to quickly get an idea of how many people the stations he is mentioning could serve. just click a location to see the population (you may need to scroll down the box at the top)
https://o.blanthorn.com/population-around-a-tile/map/?trains#x=11.717168337118778&y=48.08415991027741&z=8.71484740599907
if you're on data or on iOS you'll definitely want to click "cancel" to the prompt asking about high resolution data
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2025-03-24 13:53:37

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@nprofile…c5n8 haha I immediately spotted it and wondered if it was on purpose to get more publicity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distracted_boyfriend
They don't seem to have many young people in their team so maybe it was just luck. Suspect it will be what people are talking about more than their business plans

2025-03-23 23:38:48

@nprofile…c5n8 looks like someone has solved all the #CrossChannelRail problems
there's an innovative approach to complex systems for dealing with voltage differences too - just don't have catenaries
https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/19/a-new-tube-europe-link-uk-39-european-countries-via-train-22753362/

2025-03-21 23:13:52

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@nprofile…c5n8 do we know why they're currently timetabled so slowly compared to the TGVs? Trenitalia's dwell times are absolutely enormous
@nprofile…7w66
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2025-03-21 13:01:16

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@nprofile…c5n8 it's so kind of them to lay on four extra trains at €250 a seat for €900,000 in total extra revenue

2025-03-18 15:38:54

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So, when the blue Eurostar is full, decent options are:
- London <-> Bruges FlixBus for ~€30, sociable hours, about four hours driving in total, an hour and a half on the ferry.
- London <-> Lille FlixBus for ~€70, overnight, if unlucky arriving at Lille at ~3am, three hours driving, half an hour on Eurotunnel
If the Eurostar isn't full and you're flexible about travel, https://snap.eurostar.com/ is often four times cheaper than standard tickets
Thanks to everyone who helped!
@nprofile…c5n8

2025-03-17 10:54:21

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@nprofile…l8ak exactement :)
although fwiw doing it more thoroughly I count SNCF, Renfe, Trenitalia, Chemins de fer de Provence, Chemins de fer de la Corse, STAR, SYTRAL, RATP, Transdev, RTM, Ilévia and Tisséo, so I might need to issue a retraction on my "top ten in France" assertion.
@nprofile…c5n8

2025-03-17 10:19:12

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@nprofile…l8ak I think the SNCF is probably in the top ten rail companies operating in France but I don't think it would be in the top ten in Europe. Which companies would you put it ahead of? :)
@nprofile…c5n8

2025-03-16 21:08:16

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@nprofile…c5n8 I think that describes how I feel about a lot of things in France :)
@nprofile…7w66

2025-03-16 20:53:05

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@nprofile…c5n8 Oh good, I haven't been there for a couple of years in fairness. That and the new flat fare Metro/RER tickets would make the experience a little bit better - I have a traumatic memory of staring at an IDF ticket machine in the depths of a station with no signal trying to work out if I needed to buy a ticket to Palaiseau or Verrières
@nprofile…7w66

2025-03-16 20:32:54

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@nprofile…7w66 they also had to give the high speed station, Massy TGV, a different name to the RER station connected directly to it, Massy-Palaiseau, to confuse the tourists. Neither of which should be confused with Massy-Verrières.
And despite the RER station having an enormous elevated covered walkway, it leads to a random street. To get to the TGV station you have to walk outside, uncovered (but don't worry, the dépose minute has a covered waiting area).
@nprofile…c5n8

2025-03-16 11:32:07

Does anyone know which coach routes between England and mainland Europe minimise the time spent on a coach?
Often at peak times the Eurostar is full, but there are often still places on coaches going on ferries or on the shuttle through the tunnel. You're not allowed as a foot passenger on the shuttle unless you take a bicycle and book quite far in advance.
London -> Lille is my best candidate, but annoyingly prices are twice what it costs for London -> Paris
#crosschannelrail @nprofile…c5n8

2025-03-12 10:49:09

Apparently the timetable for the Transdev Marseille -> Nice line was released in January
https://storage.googleapis.com/is-wp-22-prod/uploads-prod/2025/02/Fiche-horaire-ZOU-TRSI.pdf
🚀 Trains hourly rather than every two hours, no gap for lunch
🚀 Trains until 9pm every day of the week in summer, two hours later than currently
🚀 2157 service from Marseille on Fridays/Saturdays makes #CrossBorderRail Madrid, even Seville -> Nice doable in a single day
😟 Morning service arrives 0803, misses 0804 to Barcelona
😟 Evening trains in week stop at 7pm mid September+

2025-03-11 11:39:33

Interrail tickets are on sale again, 15% off until April 1st, buy now and start any time within the next 11 months
I recommend buying from https://allaboard.eu/interrail who will give you a free refund unlike if you buy direct
For adults aged 28-59, the pass I use, "any ten days within two months", is €380
Further advice on @nprofile…c5n8 's https://jonworth.eu/interrail-tips-and-tricks/ and encyclopedic https://interrailwiki.eu/
It's my favourite way to travel around Europe by far - the flexibility is unmatched
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2025-03-05 15:06:18

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@nprofile…c5n8 Even for planning a holiday I found it was pretty conservative about what one could achieve - I tried to get it to plan trips that I had already taken and it told me I was trying to go too far. It seems to avoid night trains which might be part of the problem.
Probably great for people who don't know anything other than that they'd like to go on holiday and avoid flying though.

2025-02-13 08:38:06

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@nprofile…c5n8 I think it's a symptom of a problem - as far as I know, to get minimum connection times you have to pay €20k a year for MERITS Bronze, but Google just uses GTFS, having invented it
Given that to plan journeys covered by AJC you have to know the minimum connection times, I suspect it's the kind of data a determined person could sue to open up under the principle of "you can't expect people to follow secret rules"

2025-02-12 22:43:31

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@nprofile…c5n8 is it cheating to use the chemin de fer de provence?
Annot -> Clermont-Ferrand gets you a train that rail planners don't know exists, a cross city transfer (albeit a small one), TER, TGV and Intercités
Google Maps gives it a shot but it is extremely optimistic on connection times

2025-02-11 21:59:26

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@nprofile…c5n8 for the insurance to work, EU legislation requiring standardised freely available and trustworthy historical arrival time data would be a big help
I started collecting French data but gave up when I realised I'd have to do the same work for lots of countries for it to become useful
I have little hope given that planned timetable data costs €50,000 / year and everyone involved seems to think that that's fine...

2025-02-07 10:47:25

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@nprofile…c5n8 the raileasy people in the UK seem friendly if you're up for a chat, they submitted evidence to parliament about this exact issue for the UK ticketing system a couple of years ago https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/122967/pdf/
@nprofile…ptrt

2025-01-11 10:44:53

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@nprofile…0kpp railteam explicitly mentions OUIGO https://www.railteam.eu/en/members/societe-nationale-des-chemins-de-fer-francais-sncf/ so you might even get HOTNAT
but the SNCF loves pretending it isn't the SNCF almost as much as it loves telling its customers that they are wrong, so good luck :)
@nprofile…c5n8

2024-12-27 17:30:58

People like to complain about British train tickets because they're complicated, but they do also work in ways that continental Europe could learn from:
1. I went to Trip.com and put in my origin and destination
2. It came back with a huge array of prices, times and routes. I picked the one that suited me best (the cheapest)
3. I went to the station to collect my four physical tickets, far cheaper than one physical ticket - Trip.com found the best combination
1/

2024-12-27 14:39:15

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@nprofile…x759 this is maybe a bit niche but btrfs with zstd full disk compression "just works" to the point where I haven't had to buy a new storage drive in years. I generally get 10x compression on plaintext
Similarly zram means that old hardware can run better now than when it was released
Every now and then I try to remember to be grateful for them both

2024-12-13 15:45:23

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@nprofile…c5n8 summary from behind (£)
- North Macedonia has gone backwards on competition in freight
- Norway is directly awarding contracts to Vy
- ČD and SBB don't like the private sector (NSS?)
- Railcoop, Midnight Trains and Flixtrain failed in France
- the UK is renationalising PSO routes

2024-12-13 09:09:40

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@nprofile…c5n8 my understanding is that they will because it will be one ticketing system for all PACA TERs (and coaches/long distance buses), so they can't pick and choose. And it would be especially daft if SNCF Connect refused to sell the tickets that they themselves had created.
The appel d'offres is here but I can't work out how to see what they actually were asking for or what proposal was picked https://achat.maregionsud.fr/avis/index.cfm?fuseaction=marchesP.affPublication&refPub=MPI-pub-2022204011
@nprofile…sut0

2024-12-12 23:38:03

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@nprofile…sut0 the cherry on the cake is that for the newly privately contracted Nice-Marseille Transdev service, the ticketing has been separately outsourced to a consortium called Sud Mobilités Technologies
That consortium is partly composed of a little known company called SNCF Voyageurs and another small enterprise called SNCF Connect & Tech Services
@nprofile…c5n8

2024-12-12 23:23:53

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@nprofile…c5n8 the trouble with arguing with people who are paid to have certain opinions is that you're not really arguing with someone who has an opinion, you're arguing with someone who has a job description

2024-12-12 13:42:33

Border controls in Germany are causing traffic jams which satnavs detect and reroute traffic around, avoiding the controls
> the check is after the German city of Trier, [...] from Lux one can still get into Trier with no check, and onwards via smaller roads. [Any] car navigator detects traffic (i.e. border check) and will suggest an alternative route, a road with no such check.
(£) comment on FT article https://www.ft.com/content/5440a9dc-9605-4eee-8ad4-fbff707b2fa7?commentID=b4bd5776-d089-43e0-b22e-3147d3273525
@nprofile…c5n8 think you might enjoy this

2024-12-12 11:20:30

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@nprofile…l8ak askip il y a un petit peu d'évidence que les feux sont aussi visibles clignotants ou pas, mais c'est plus facile d'estimer la distance d'un vélo avec des feux non-clignotants
e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457523004657
perso, après avoir lu ça je mis toujours mes feux en façon continue, et personne ne m'a écrasé
@nprofile…43ug @nprofile…sq0g

2024-12-10 19:05:52

yesterday's whitepaper from Transport & Environment caused a lot of buzz so here's my rating of countries' railways by how early they go to bed (beauty sleep is important)
1. France 🥇
2. Czechia 🥈
3. Finland 🥉
4. Austria
5. Italy
6. Germany
7. Luxembourg
8. Belgium
9. Sweden
10. Denmark
11. Switzerland 💩
Caveat: this is from incomplete MERITS and Trainline data by someone (me) who has an incomplete understanding of MERITS. So take no more seriously than that T&E report
cc: @nprofile…c5n8
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2024-12-10 10:40:25

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@nprofile…c5n8 this stuff happens so often that I'm sure they do this on purpose to avoid anyone believing that a connection is expected to work
or maybe they get some kind of pleasure pulling out of a station watching the sad faces of everyone on the train opposite. was probably written into the union contract in lieu of a pay rise one year

2024-12-10 10:36:00

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@nprofile…c5n8 off topic but I try to share this knowledge wherever possible: to avoid the Nice Airport tourist ~~mugging~~ ticket
1. take the tram _for free_¹ to Grand Arenas, get off
2. buy one carnet of tickets, secretly usable by multiple people (just tap multiple times)
3. get on the next tram - if you got on line 3 you'll need to walk round the corner to the line 2 stop
saves approx €10 per person
¹: google before travel to make sure this is still true, extremely poorly advertised
@nprofile…l8ak

2024-12-10 10:24:50

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@nprofile…c5n8 I looked at this before personally - straight from the bovine3dom archives
> Travelling to Lyon : if you get to the airport, take the line 47 bus and then the T3 tram, not the Rhonexpress, you'll save about €15 each way. TGVs go to the city centre but ouigos go to the airport
I know politicians like to complain about the Rhônexpress and talk about taking it back into public hands from time to time but I don't think anything concrete has happened yet
@nprofile…l8ak

2024-12-09 17:19:23

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@nprofile…y5at do you have a stash of cheap suspicious-looking bags you keep around for when you want a 25% discount
I bet once they catch on to you you'll start breeding boar
@nprofile…c5n8

2024-12-09 13:57:03

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@nprofile…c5n8 rating a railway without rating their timetable is certainly an interesting choice
it seems i can max out their ratings by running a high speed train once a year, on time, at night so long as I make the tickets free and accept bicycles. I would need to have a discount scheme for people with grey hair - maybe they get a cup of coffee

2024-12-05 22:20:50

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@nprofile…c5n8 I'm sure you're aware but the new underground station in Marseille might change things there (400 page pdf here https://www.lignenouvelle-provencecotedazur.fr/sites/lnpca.fr/files/telechargements/medias/documents/Pi%C3%A8ce_C2_CT2_Gare_et_travers%C3%A9e_souterraine_Marseille_0.pdf )
My gut feeling is that Montpellier would be hard to secure because it'd be too easy to get access from the road above, but it's definitely worth checking

2024-12-05 22:00:25

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@nprofile…c5n8 not exactly what you asked but I have some anecdata from today: this evening, when booking London -> Paris Eurostar seats for two interrail passholders for any time between 26th and 31st December, there were only two trains with seats available.
By the time I finished typing my passport number out there was one train available.
Standard ticket approx €200 each.
We desperately need to increase capacity on that route

2024-11-29 18:02:05

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@nprofile…c5n8 I don't think I actually got a chance to talk about how much I love Scotty
I find for quickly sketching out a route the interface is more ergonomic than DB Navigator - for your example, after flicking through a few options it's clear that the evening NJ from Vienna to Utrecht is key and that I should structure my journey so that I am pretty certain of making that connection
I don't know how that could be made easy in a skyscanner-like way. Maybe sensitivity to missed trains?
@nprofile…y5at

2024-11-27 13:34:05

25% discount on Interrail tickets running until 17th December, best way to travel internationally by train in Europe even for short trips. Buy now and wait up to a ~year to use it, totally flexible until you activate. The "ten days in two month pass" that I use is €336.
Recommend you buy via https://allaboard.eu/interrail because they offer free refunds if you change your mind.
Wholly recommend the encyclopedic https://interrailwiki.eu/ for tips and @nprofile…c5n8 https://jonworth.eu/interrail-tips-and-tricks/ for a shorter primer

2024-11-12 15:12:00

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@npub1y98…fhhs i always find it a bit depressing that they always go for "planes aren't taxed" and "have you heard that France has banned two internal flight routes" and never e.g. "Why are Italian high speed train tickets so cheap?" or "Why are OUIGO tickets 1/10th of the price of Eurostar even though they're run by the same company?"
but at least they're talking about trains

2024-10-31 08:50:14

I got stopped by four armed SNCF militia at Nice today after the barriers closed on me
I had tried to scan my ticket, no luck
They wouldn't let my friend wait with me. (He got lost in the station and missed our train)
They took me out the barriers and showed me how easy it is to scan the ticket: maximum brightness, ticket resized to no more than 30% of the screen, hold it in the right place, wait 10 seconds. All the while surrounded by tourists who couldn't get through
1/
@npub1y98…fhhs

2024-10-30 13:19:16

Niche improvement in French railway ticketing: the Chemins de fer de Provence now allow and encourage split ticketing (the guard will tell you if you try to buy an expensive ticket) between the kilométrique fare and the cheap flat-rate integrated Lignes d'azur fare available around Nice.
Last year it was forbidden with posters up warning against it, so it's nice that they've seen sense. The railway is totally independent of the SNCF so little hope that it will be replicated...
@npub1y98…fhhs
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2024-10-22 09:21:34

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@npub1fpe…th5v I had disagreements with Mozilla reviewers in the past for Tridactyl and I get where gorhill is coming from. It was a very frustrating and patronising process where the reviewers claimed to know what was best for my users. We did reach a compromise eventually.
I think most people don't realise that Mozilla can block you from distributing an extension directly to users if they so choose. You have to follow their rules even if your extension never touches their store.
@npub1p4k…wfhv

2024-10-09 17:11:32

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@npub1y98…fhhs it's a lovely little line although it only really gets interesting once you get out of the cheap tariff zone into the old kilometre-priced part. Maybe the tunnel to Digne will be reopened by the time you visit :)
My British brain can't quite get my head around that I take the same train to go to the DIY shop as I do to go snow-shoeing...
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2024-10-09 17:00:38

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@npub1y98…fhhs the metric railway here does seem to be a real success story of ticketing reform. It used to be an expensive per-km tariff, now it's the same cheap time-based ticket as you use for the buses and trams with free correspondence included for 90 minutes (iirc)
Ridership went up by something mad like 40% with initially no changes to service patterns

2024-10-09 16:58:35

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@npub1y98…fhhs I'd be happy with either Siemens or Stadler :) I'm somewhat hopeful that we'll get Stadlers in Nice for the metric railway because Corsica has ordered some currently they run the same stock. But it's not run by the SNCF so of course it's good. You know we even have integrated ticketing with the metric railway, buses and trams?
I think if France changed its rules to make it easier to run foreign-made trains in France, French trains would mysteriously suddenly get better...

2024-10-09 15:29:10

Transdev has ordered 16 trains from Alstom for the new Nice -> Marseille TERs.
It's going to get 7.
I wish France would stop buying French trains :)
https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/entreprises/transports/ter-marseille-toulon-nice-les-trains-neufs-attendus-ne-seront-pas-tous-livres_AV-202410090595.html

2024-10-07 10:59:04

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@npub198t…hasj nice article!
I use `tmux attach || tmux` over SSH everywhere and it does basically what I want: if I've lost connection or detached on purpose it reattaches me and if I've closed the previous session it makes a new one. And it means I don't have to devote precious brain power to remembering which situation I'm in

2023-07-02 08:30:05

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@npub19lt…qfjk I'd love a retrospective on the NHS COVID App. It must have been a crazy time. Was picking the Isle of Wight a conscious Day of the Triffids reference or was it just a happy coincidence?