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That's not the only thing. SNCF is not very efficient. Just look at the staffing levels for an average TGV service. There are often 6-8 persons alone herding passengers on the platforms and checking tickets.
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This is common. SNCF wants to sell seats first to long distance passengers. For example I have seen TGV Lyria to be shown "complet" between Dijon and Paris, but tickets for Mulhouse - Paris were nevertheless available.
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RENFE also sells AVANT tickets on regular AVE Trains. Which is another way to do this. Reserve a certain number of seats on a train for short distance travellers. Doesn't Japan have something like that on the Shinkansen as well?
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If they are running less trains that means that they should not block new entrants with the excuse that there is no capacity...
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80 passengers per car, times 8 cars is 640. So it would seem that 528 does not require packing them like sardines... It all comes down to what proportion of the train will be 1st class, and how large the buffet is.
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A big obstacle is that cabotage is not possible. That makes destinations beyond the current ones not viable. (And I even wonder how long the service to Amsterdam will survive...)
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Running a train to Zurich is a non starter. You will simple not get a path on Basel - Zurich unless you permit domestic passengers.
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Isn't it also the case that a Eurostar is no longer considered "clean" if it has to stop en route for whatever reason? That would make long routes that mostly go over the conventional network pretty much impossible.
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The real innovation now however is "easyride". A "pay as you go" system that entirely relies on something everyone already has: A smartphone. Switzerland entirely skipped the phase where you install card readers everywhere...
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You can. And you also can travel between any two random public transport stops in the country on a single ticket. Even when multiuple different companies are involved. And that you could already do 50 years ago. Integrated public transit ticketing is not something new.
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The Netherlands has had this for almost 20 years now. Switzerland has had integrated ticketing for over half a century. But building a pay as you go public transport payment system using chip cards and expensive readers in every vehicle is outdated. The smart way to implement this is with an app.
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But interesting that he admits that Musk is only going to last a few months...
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Maybe Renfe needs to get some ETR1000 sets... Or even better, Trenitalia starts running Barcelona Paris (and please run at least one pair Barcelona - Geneva. I promise that will be a huge success).
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That's an insult to honest hammers.
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Both can be true at the same time. It is easier to buy international tickets now than it was in the past. It is hard to make a comprehensive system that contains all of Europe, as demonstrated by previous failures to build such a system.
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One thing I must say here: On average buying international train tickets nowadays is easier than it was in the past. Things could be better, but don't fall for the nirvana fallacy.
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I think you should not underestimate the problem. There are about 100000 flights per day worldwide. Deutsche Bahn alone runs 40000 trains a day. And those trains stop in multiple places. The number of potential tickets is several order of magnitudes higher for rail than for air.
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The rural parts depend on the states anyway. So why not give the whole thing to the states?
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They did do that in Japan however.
In the UK they made the mistake to split in to many companies. They should have just gone back to the big 4.
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There is no reason to assume that having multiple companies is a bad idea. Switzerland has lots of different railways, and because of that a very dense network. Especially for regional transport having a local company operate is useful.
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Well, you notice it when she says they need bigger stations. No, they don't. They need better procedures...
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I wonder one thing: Can a private operator tell ADIF that they want to pass on all the silly theatre? A bit like how Trenitalia in France asked to just leave the gates open?
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I remember trying to buy a ticket to Barcelona in Vilagarcia de Arousa. Only to hear "there are not trains to Barcelona from here". So no tickets...
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And idiotic ticketing. For example, one can buy a ticket Figueres - Valencia, but not a ticket Lyon Valencia, even when both trips involve exactly the same trains.
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You have however missed out on the ones that have the new interior, which is much nicer.
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OTOH India building HSR to standard gauge is a mistake. They should build to Indian Broad guage.
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Trains are slower on pretty much every single route in Belgium than they were in the 30ies of last century...
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It's Brussels. Needs no explanation.
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A "royal decree" is not what you probably think it is.
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That 2 changes max even applies to domestic trips, and it used to be 1 change max. Which is one reason why we have Trainline...
But it can be worse. Look at RENFE.
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SBB might soon have a few surplus RIC coaches.
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Has any effort been made so far to get the Frecciarossa 1000 approved for Belgium and the Netherlands? I think that Trenitalia might be a serious new entrant on that route.
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Another Verschlimbesserung, in other words...
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If they have lost their approval for Denmark what is SJ using on Copenhagen - Stockholm?
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This has actually existed in the past, so not entirely bullshit in my opinion...
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There were direct trains on that route at one time. They used Swedish X2000 sets I believe, and these are still around, so it could be done if SJ had any spares (and interest)
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Agree. I only wished that my wired keyboard had a USB port so I could connect my mouse directly to it.
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There might be a case for hydrogen in the future once we have enough renewables that periods with zero or negative electricity prices become more common.
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My main problem is that the matresses are usually to thin. For a big heavy guy like me that prefers to sleep on his side that is a problem.
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It's actually run by both SNCF and DB. The crew is SCNF till Strasbourg.
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I've read that 75% of the passengers on that train do the whole trip. Which is quite interesting.
What I think should be done is run Paris - Berlin via Brussels. Should be around 8 hours too, and would be possible with ex Thalys PBKA sets.
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Sleeper trains are also not as big a time saver as they apear to be. Last time I took a sleeper to Vienna I was fortunate that I could check in to my hotel room in the morning. And I immediately went back to sleep...
8 hours in a comfortable ICE is fine by me.
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Yes, as an experienced rail traveller I can solve this. But now look at it from the perspective of eg. a tourist from the US...
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Trying buying a ticket for Basel to Luxembourg... Three successive SNCF operated TER services. Ticket is however not available...
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Well, I can give you an example of a trip that is 100% on SCNF trains, yet that you cannot book on SNCF's own platform...
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What however remains incomprehensible is, if SNCF indeed has more experience selling tickets on line than anyone else, why are they so bad at it?
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I need to travel to Luxembourg in January. Still haven't found out where I can buy a ticket. Basel - Luxembourg is all on SNCF services, yet you cannot buy a ticket from SNCF for that trip. SNCF can't even get ticketing right for its own trains...
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Bank transfer? Or maybe you paid when you picked the tickets up?
I do know we used to to enrol for a Les Glenans sailing camp...
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look at github.com/containers/t...
You just create a container, enter it and install the toolchain you need. Do your compilation. Afterwards keep or throw away the container...