"In 2025, Chinese railways carried 4.601 billion passenger trips and 1.640 trillion passenger-km. Civil aviation carried 770 million passengers and 1.399 trillion passenger-km... China is moving people by rail where rail works, using aviation where it remains necessary."

«We will créer un réseau de bus for our belle ville de Nogent. Messieurs, I want to 'ear propositions pour le brand!» — «No Bus» «Génial!» Apparently, a later maire did speak English and they changed it. #LaFranceTractée

Z2! 😍 Goodness, TER Grand Est, the state of this trains is an absolute disgrace for the railway! 😟 And a big "fuck off" to your customers. Come on, at least give this train a cleaning! Interior luckily looking much better. #LaFranceTractée

I'm in France, trying to find some of SNCF's last loco hauled trains the next few days. I did a little desk research before and tried to map all the loco hauled passenger services in France. Surely, there are mistakes in the diagram, so please let me know if you spot something. #LaFranceTractée

Das Leben in vollen Zügen genießen … der Zug @oebb.bsky.social der Panoramawagen #SBB

M'n moeder kwam langs met wat oude schoolschriften. Gaf een boeiend inkijkje in hoe we zijn grootgebracht in de wereld van het verkeer. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door de ANWB en VVN. De kernboodschap: lief kind, pas je aan aan de auto. Also: ik schreef leesbaarder in groep 6 dan nu. 😶

Lösungen für alle Probleme

The mayor of Rotterdam, Carola Schouten, took the tram to her own wedding today.

Met de tram naar je huwelijk als burgemeester 👏🏻

Grote drukte op NS-website door massale belangstelling voor goedkoop Dal Vrij ticket https://www.treinenweb.nl/nieuws/11913/grote-drukte-op-ns-website-door-massale-belangstelling-voor-goedkoop-dal-vrij-ticket.html

Never, ever refer to the average density of anything bigger than a square mile! Even comparing the average density of cities is silly, because it's mostly about how much open space they have. Comparing the average density of two countries boils down to which one has Alaska.

This is on bus stops in my marvellous capital, good on ya London, spread the word.

This is exactly what happens when cars are the default transportation policy. EVs are often sold as the ultimate fix, but they take up the exact same amount of space as gas cars. A blanket "cars-for-everything" policy will always fail because geometry always wins.

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington. Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.

I somehow doubt this will work

I accept that there are legitimate use cases for AI but a lot of use is unnecessary & our systems force people into use by making it hard to avoid even though both use & the infrastructure it relies on is harmful to both people & the environment. Sorry, did I say AI? I meant cars. (AI sucks too.)

I feel bad for the people visiting from developed nations, they’re not used to our primitive ways

From the last Gilded Age to the present one, elite disinterest remains one of the greatest barriers to great and inclusive public transit. This 1929 ad makes the same argument we must make today. 1/

What was that Joe Biden line? “Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value”

Peyvand Naimi en Borna Naimi zitten onterecht vast in Iran. Ze behoren tot de vervolgde Baha’i minderheid. Zeer waarschijnlijk hangt hen daarom nu de doodstraf boven het hoofd. Agenten martelden ze met schijnexecuties om ‘bekentenissen’ te dwingen. Teken de petitie! www.amnesty.nl/forms/pet-ir...

In fact, as someone who's from a poor northern town AND has looked at the Census data I might just devote my life to sharing these figures over and over until I never again hear somebody tell me how poor northerners all have to drive everywhere

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

En om de mensen voor te zijn die roepen dat je bij een straf een tweede kans moet krijgen: rijontzegging is mi geen straf. Het is de constatering dat je niet geschikt bent om een auto te besturen. Autorijden is geen fundamenteel mensenrecht dat je ontnomen wordt. (..).

Ik besloot toch er uitgebreid op te reageren op mijn Linkedin.

Visual explanation of unprotected bike lanes 🦈 👌🏼 Source: Reddit u/silveryspoons

If the driver isn't mentioned because we think the car could somehow have done this without the driver intending it to, the only proper response would be an urgent investigation into how this was possible and how it can be prevented in future (perhaps halting all driving until we know it's safe?)

Hearing rumours GoVolta is scrapping the service to Hamburg from June.

We should paint some sort of markings on the road so that people know where they shouldn't park

Spannende Insights aus der 9-Euro-Ticket-Zeit: Auch Messdaten deuten mittlerweile darauf hin, dass das deutsche Schienennetz inkl. Rollmaterial dem Anstrom an Passagieren nicht gewachsen war, was sich in einem signifikanten Anstieg der Verspätungen im Nah- und Fernverkehr niederschlug

Mein Kommentar zum Festhalten der SPÖ an der Lobauautobahn @derstandard.at Man mag Hanke für diese Entscheidung kritisieren, ihm Unvernunft, Betonpolitik vorwerfen. Durch die Linse der Geschichte d ö. Sozialdemokratie betrachtet, ist seine Entscheidung nur logisch www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Cycled into town on a narrow shared path that runs through a playground filled with toddlers and loosd dogs. But presumably if I hit somebody that'll be down to my recklessness rather than the choices of a council that decided to marginalise healthy travel while giving motorists a dual carriageway

Huge US decline. Canada 2nd. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...

The secret to stopping a Narita Express train in #Tokyo.

Really hope we are!

Talkshowredacteur is het meest routineuze en geestdodende beroep in Nederland, nog voor werk aan de lopende band, in distributiecentra en slachthuizen. Er bestaat ook geen enkele beroepseer of ambitie tot meer dan hetzelfde.

They probably wouldn't check it when everything runs smooth. But they will happily use it against you if any problem occurs. And also if some "proactuve idiot" gets into the right mood. How I hate these corporate loophole policies designed only to throw problems onto customers.

Daar staan ze dan, de vier draaiorgels die vandaag de hele dag het Oekraïense volkslied gaan spelen voor de Russische ambassade in Den Haag.

Sterrenkundigen: 'Over 50.000 jaar zullen alle stationsroltrappen het tegelijk doen'

>You'll vote the LPC forever to stop the CPC God knows how much I came to hate first-past-the-post electoral systems.

If government made it cheap to travel by helicopter, there'd be a lot more helicopter trips. The fact those trips are not happening today does not mean people are being deprived of their mobility

F: Warum braucht man in Kroatien zwei Lokführer? A: Weil auch zwei Signale neben dem Gleis stehen!

Overigens: periodieke reminder dat zelfs het Binnenhof een tijd lang een parkeerplaats was, in de tijd dat alles moest wijken voor de auto. Het was Lubbers himself die de laatste geparkeerde auto's van het Binnenhof af duwde. 🙃

Het aantal nieuwe hypotheken van meer dan 1 miljoen euro is in vijf jaar tijd verdubbeld. Door de hypotheekrente betaalt iedere Nederlander daaraan mee, en als het aan het kabinet ligt blijft dat zo. Maar wie profiteert hier eigenlijk van? Vooral de rijkste 20 procent. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/st...

WTF

Nobelprijscomité introduceert Nobelprijs voor kleinzielig autocratisch dementerend narcisme

May I once again not-at-all-humbly reiterate what I said back in 2022: the centrist brain-worm that "energy security" comes from crawling from dependence on one fossil fuel supplier to another is absolute bullshit: Europe could and should have been reducing gas reliance faster for the past 3 years