Glad to see Amtrak finally embracing european practices

With these massive gains in ridership, all four cities saw decreases in the rate of cyclist fatalities. Incredibly, London and Paris, with a 189% and 751%(!!) increase in cycling respectively, both saw decreases in the number of cyclist fatalities in 2005-2023. In real numbers, not just rates!

Paris metropolis: Striking reductions in car use due to proactive efforts to encourage bike, walking, transit: —Less car ownership: From 0.5 cars/HH in Paris to 0.36, 1999–2022. Outside of Paris: 0.88➡️0.8 —35% less gas sold 2005–24 —15% fewer gas stations between 2019–24 www.apur.org/sites/defaul...

More places should have grass-covered dams

Nature (pre-2015 Schengen free movement) is healing

Genuinely wondering what the actual suggestion is here – some departments (or in the case of the TTC, probably many ones) are backward-looking, so none of the others should be allowed to trial anything innovative?

"Where things get truly silly is at the pump. Whoever thinks that Europe’s farmers are the loudest lobby has not seen the willingness of politicians of all colours to appease automobilists." europemorningpost.substack.com/p/we-have-le...

Finally getting to ride a cargo bike again today was so much fun 💕 (despite the insanely cold, rainy and windy weather)

TIL the usually diagonal parts on the left and right of a train's ceiling are referred to as a voûte Genuinely beautiful, looking forward to confuse everyone by using that term wherever possible from now on

Genuinely in awe that CFR, Romania's state railways, somehow managed to refurbish what already had to be the worst dining car seating anywhere on earth into something still even worse

Some personal news I updated my little map of places I've stayed overnight (tl.fdms.eu) to include departures and arrivals by night train (small white dots) so it no longer looks like I've never been to Morocco :)

Psst

Not great: Two-door busses Great: All busses here have all-door boarding and there's even a poster promoting the benefits Not great again: Fare inspectors all wear high-viz jackets

Bielefeld's uniquely meter-gauge Stadtbahn is so cute

So because #Ryanair in 2024 treated a passenger to a 13-hour delay and €890 in costs for a new flight, and then simply ghosted her, an Austrian court today impounded one of its airplanes at Linz airport. ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

Nez cassé and Corail in the fog <3 (Third time on voitures Corail on this trip, and now our first time ever on Ouigo Train Classique – Ouigo bad, but Corail good)

Absolutely beautiful out this evening

Myth: Mixed-traffic trams are slow and unreliable Fact: Citadis tram(-train)s and TGV trains mix just fine (To be fair the Nantes tram-trains are outrageously infrequent, and quite pointless since through-running onto the tram network was never actually implemented)

Journey time VMS including bike times! Definitely a first for me

Hello from line 172 🚍 - Just one run in the afternoon to connect a school w a tram to the city center - Same stops as a bus that starts further out and has 15-min headways, but unlike that one runs w an articulated bus - No mention of it at any intermediate stops - Huge success judging by ridership

Nantes «BRT» This line has been rebranded in 2020 to become Nantes' second «ligne de Busway» – while the other one does have some more BRT features, the only reason for this one's rebranding was the introduction of all-door boarding, which inexplicably isn't a thing on any regular bus lines here

Something something the socialists here [the mayor's party] really said «let's own the naolibs» [the transit authority] Unrelated how does one get less terminally online

Pedestrian tram crossing, Nantes

Just when I thought I'd already seen all possible transit fare payment methods Bordeaux app tickets use *Bluetooth* rather than NFC, and can be validated by bringing your phone within ~2 meters of the validator

Nothing nicer than biking in France, where bike traffic seemingly never has to stop and the fact that despite that there seem to be hardly any close calls really underscores that for cyclists there's simply so much safety in numbers

Narrowboi, Toulouse edition

Hi from genuinely random intersection, Barcelona <3

Briefly tried the ComfortJet, the Czech Railways' (relatively) new flagship intl long-distance train within Germany last weekend, and now on a longer trip within Austria today

Was in Österreich mit der #StVO Novelle ab 1. Mai möglich wird, gibt es in Europa in bereits rund 500 Städten: Automatisierte Zufahrtskontrollen. Die meisten in Italien. Mehr #Verkehrsberuhigung und autofreie Zentren in Städten umsetzen! #Verkehrswende PS: Mehr Infos hier vcoe.at/blog/detail/...

It's the best thing ever when this happens at night

What are my tired eyes reading (Rewe is a german grocery store chain)

Every city needs its tunnel; the Leipzig one still happens to be extraordinarily beautiful

Ironically, on the new Stadler TINAs in Halle (where I'm now) the average view is probably much worse despite their *huge* windows, since the rows closest to the doors and the segment ends (i.e. half of all rows) basically don't get to see anything

Always weird when a new vehicle – in this case Magdeburg's Flexity, which entered service in Sept 2025 – comes with screens everywhere, but still offers such a mediocre passenger experience …

As an engineer, it is my very scientific opinion that any loading gauge that allows for the aesthetic abomination that is less space between adjacent rails than the actual track gauge must be rejected

I love european old towns

Potsdam tram vibes

✨ Parkverbot

Neighborhood character, Potsdam (<3)

No such thing as bad weather for cycling, except for today

Today T6 Nord tramway opened in Lyon. The project isn't very big (just 5.5 km) but the timeline is just impressive: the project was launched in 2020, 3 years for planning, design, public consultation, permitting and contracting and less than 3 years for construction. youtu.be/XiJesxVJXFo?...

Do we know why BDŽ currently seem to be running just two seat cars on the night train between Sofia and Silistra instead of the one couchette and one seat car they were last year? @vorortanleiter.bsky.social @isaak.at @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

Just got my monthly Île-de-France Mobilités bill for my Paris transit trips taken two weeks ago, which will be automatically debited from my bank account in a few days Still a fascinating way to pay for transit

Forgot to post this beautiful world map from last night (wild that Austrian Airlines apparently at some point used a B767 for *Klagenfurt*)

Having just spent a week in latam I can proclaim with confidence The IAD mobile lounges are the only high-platform BRT system in the world that makes any sense

Cool that the Silve Line is running at 120 km/h, but maybe it should run slower to avoid getting held every few stops for schedule adjustment? Isn't that what ATO is for

Ski town vibes

Somehow forgot how much I hate Amtrak The four crew members on this six-car train are not just treating everyone boarding like cattle, today they're outright berating even passengers traveling in groups for not taking the first available seats in whatever car they're forcing them to sit in

Suddenly there's snow

Cercanías, but make it standard gauge