Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Tempi disaster, which claimed the lives of of 57 people. Years later, families are still being refused their legal rights over knowing what happened to their loved ones and the Greek railway has yet to see any significant safety upgrades.

Due to the latest discourse on construction costs, let me bring back an article I had originally posted on the bird app back in 2023 about the archeology in the Thessaloniki metro costing 188,5 million euros, up from the original 15 million planned… www.emakedonia.gr/metro-thessa...

Interesting video about sections T1 and T2 of Rome's MC line whose works are starting this week. For Italian standards, this 7.7 km, 7 stations segments are going to cost a fortune, a little less than €4 bn. The stations are incredibly deep, between 33 and 48 meters deep. youtu.be/-BK88S_DWEQ?...

On the discource of the horrendous proposal of 115 km of tunnel for mediocre high speed rail in Australia, I have seen posts about "bad consulting" and how planners could take a look outside of the anglosphere for better examples. While this is undoubtedly true and important... (1/3)

Posting the same thing for a second time within 10': Sometimes I think about how the english-speaking world could reduce construction costs on transportation projects. Then I see proposals like this one and remember that they are doing this to themselves and nothing can save them.

Sometimes I think about how the english-speaking world could reduce construction costs on transportation projects. Then I see proposals like this one and remember that they are doing this to themselves and nothing can save them.

Some of you tend to forget that this is a public platform

The actual divide in road signage is green vs. blue motorway signage (only one is correct but I will not tell you which one)

Zum Thema ETCS:

Ranking train protection systems from best to worst!!! 1. ETCS L2 [...] bottom of the barell: ETCS L1 LS (I am looking at you Switzerland) On a more serious note: should I actually try and form this list? There is a lot of valuable discourse around this...

Coming back to this in order to say that there is more than enough potential imho and I would go as far as saying that it should be extended all the way to Düsseldorf - something impossible because the Venlo - Mönchengladbach line is a sh*thole. And do not cheap out on the frequency, keep it at 30'

Okay so if I understand this correctly: Utrecht wants two new tram lines with a combined length under 10 km and the projected costs in 2020 were 2,5bn €. 6 years later and the first of the two lines (4 km) - partially in tunnel - is to absorb a shocking 1,8bn €. HOW? www.utrecht.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

The NIMBY Olympics are underway in Athens: Evaggelismos station on line 4 is being blocked again! After original plans were revised by court order to reduce construction in a park, the site would expand to nearby roads, a move deemed unacceptable by the council. www.news247.gr/ellada/parko...

A lot of coffee talk in the days prior on my timeline, especially about the highly automated machines places like LAP use. I just saw that Evasys (manufacturer of said machines) has a new model that can do freddo espressos?! I am very curious to see how the Greek market reacts to this…

no matter my music taste, no matter how it evolves, it always circles back to laïka in one way or another

Premier jour de service commercial des nouvelles rames BOA du métro de Lille. Depuis le temps qu'elles sont attendues !

Rare aesthetic: Du kommst aus einem Ort ohne Karnevalstradition und wohnst jetzt im Rheinland 😐😐😐

Noooo Belgium noooooooooo don’t be like your northern and southern neighbours

The European Commission will propose the Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation (#SDBTR) this spring We know WHY rail ticketing in the EU needs to be fixed Here I explain the building blocks HOW to do it jonworth.eu/how-to-fix-r...

am I the only one who is incredibly sceptical of this whole „ban social media for teens“ thing

On another note, hearing people say how bad the life in (insert country in Northern Europe) has became and how they should move to *Dubai* is a major, major ick.

The second (re)post regarding London in a row (funny): Why does it seem to be so important to get Thameslink to Kent? Rainham services via the Greenwich line are notoriously unreliable (see below) and long-planned Maidstone services have never been succesfully integrated into the timetable either.

Its pathetic. Greenford should be Overground a la Liberty Line in East London and you should be able to electrify it with a couple of million quid (n/b treasury you should have given this to Khan).

I would rather be greeted in an email with a slur than the „I hope this email finds you well“ phrase - or a terribly translated version of said phrase in another language

Unlikely - The European LCC model is pretty much a key part of transport policy at this point and killing it would need industry-level reform.

So there is this thing called „airport theory“ where people are going to the airport 30‘ before boarding instead of 2 hours… My culture is not an online trend show some respect

Endlich fahren vernünftige 12 m Busse in Aachen

one thing about me is that you won’t catch me doing dry January I just found out what it means btw apparently lots of people do it

Engineering curricula need this, engineering curricula need that… how about an engineering curriculum that frees academics and students from the red-green spectrum for good-bad/right-wrong comparisons?

Dutch transport is about to get a brand new ticketing system - OVpas - that will replace the controversial OC-Chipkaart; yet they are really hiding the details of the new system…

I am truly the last person who should have opinions on bikes but here we are lol

Since the whole planet is on a dairy/protein frenzy can we at least bring back 2010s frozen yoghurt? Bonus motivation: we are in a recession!

this diva

Gut wrenching news coming out of Spain - the death toll has climbed even while I've been reading all I can on it. Absolutely no clarity as to what's happened yet, so ignore anyone saying otherwise.

I think I had posted these on the bird app, but since I am digging through old photos: Baku Station back in Spring 2016, looking very different from today.

nooooo they are killing the RATP jingle nooooo

Being in university is so funny because one day you will be asked to do something wild in the name of education that you would otherwise never do. Why am I modelling tunnel construction on my computer?

„We have Switzerland at home“ I said as I was in the cable car, climbing up to what is what is one of the most quirky places in all of Athens, the Mont Parnes Casino. Let’s take a look at a vision that was never realised and discover a building unlike any other in the city. A (long) thread 🧵 (1/17)

I am now an owner of coffee grinder. To complete the process of becoming an insufferable man in his 20s, the following things need to happen: - gym obsession - bouldering and/or cycling - podcast or DJ phase - Japan trip All of these things are BAD and I need to be stopped if I am caught doing them.

Currently writing a thread on a CASINO out of all things and it is taking significantly longer than it should

I’ve mentioned it multiple times: Athenian public transport is collapsing as we speak and it is a matter of time before it becomes effectively unusable.

Average discussion on any social event with people my age in Athens: - Where do you live? - In Aachen, that is in Germany. - Oh, abroad! - Yes, indeed. - Yeah so I am considering moving abroad too, I am just looking for a job or a masters programme that I like. There is no way I am staying here.

Two photos (not mine) that also show the massive amount of people, as well as a powerful symbolic message from the new generation "We want the train again in Kalamata". Happy New Year! 🚂

As a part of a Santa special train on New Year’s Eve, the depot in Kalamata became unusually busy: the first train was to run through the city in 10+ years. Naturally, @steroumel.bsky.social and I payed a visit to witness the activity and see historic rolling stock first-hand. A thread 🧵 (1/8):

In the magical realm of questionable choices, Athens also decided to bring back LNG buses. They had been phased out years ago citing costs. Now, they have been brought back, citing ecological reasons. Oddly enough, they bought vehicles from Menarini - a brand I‘ve never seen outside of Italy.

A person just unironically said thy don’t use Wikipedia because it is „unscientific“ and that they „just ask ChatGPT“ on the same breath. We are living in a dystopia.

The engineers saw the TBM controls and set the speed to „fast“ or something similar in the last months…

Flughafen Köln/Bonn count your f days

It is a running joke at this point that every time I’ll return to Athens, I will be sick in one way or another

Hellenic Train (Member of the FSI Group, Passenger and Freight trains in GR) just announced an order of 23 Alstom Coradia Stream EMUs. Internal sources claim 15 suburban + 8 IC sets, scheduled to arrive from 2027.