Thank goodness. Someone who knows their stuff and knows how to communicate it. Edin Forto (Transport Minister, Bosnia) - he’s a good speaker. #GreenMobilitySummit
I wonder how these senior people really learn. If you go to events like this, full of bla bla, can you ever learn the reality on the ground? #GreenMobilitySummit
Also I’m a bit cynical here. There’s currently no passenger train between Maglaj (Federation) and Doboj (Republika Srpska) because the rail firms don’t get along and it’s politically too complex. Can they really get a line upgraded and get something working on it? #GreenMobilitySummit
@jon In Austria the correct title for the rector of a university is "Magnifizenz" 🤔 👑
Then again, as silly as the rituals of diplomacy may seem, I try to remember that formalized compliments & titles & protocols historically grew out of episodes in which jaw-jaw replaced war-war. <>
There is this thing with places you go infrequently where somehow the weather and the place and the light merge in your memory
Just as I’ve seldom had a day of sun in all my visits to Maastricht, every time I’ve been to Sarajevo I’ve had these amazing calm evenings with golden sun and it’s an amazing place on evenings like this…
One day I’ll come here and it’ll rain. But until then I’ll dream every evening here is like this evening 🙂
Ahhhh. Done for the day and sat on a sunny terrace in Sarajevo. And I’m here for the next 3 nights, with just a day trip Saturday to Ploče. That’s very calm by #CrossBorderRail standards 🙂
Green Mobility Summit. Where the bike parking is a lamp post. And there’s no way to take the stairs not to the lift… and there’s a LCD screen to direct people #CrossBorderRail
One or two comments at this Green Mobility Summit make me think the new railway line Kjustendil 🇧🇬 - Kriva Palanka 🇲🇰 is not as advanced as the news stories claim. I’m now extra looking forward to going there 🙂 #CrossBorderRail
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 06 04 Jun 2024 - Arrival of night train, Budapest - Pécs - Beli Manastir - Osijek - Zagreb
Crossing these borders:
Lanžhot 🇨🇿 - Brodské 🇸🇰
Štúrovo 🇸🇰 - Szob 🇭🇺
Beli Manastir 🇭🇷 - Magyarbóly 🇭🇺
Just had to tell two elderly Lithuanian couples to use headphones rather than playing a video at full volume in a train carriage. FFS. It’s not just teenagers who behave badly it seems! #CrossBorderRail
Hmm. Peculiar Mastodon (or @ivory ?) issue. Toots I write and post, but the image upload fails (I’m in a train, sometimes I lose signal), don’t get saved as Drafts. Any tips as to how to fix this? I’ve reset the cache already, no change… #CrossBorderRail
Meanwhile my train is heading south from Tallinn on the line to Viljandi. Max speed here is just 100km/h, and the track noticeably bumpier than the line to Narva. The train - like everywhere in Estonia - is well used by all sorts of people.
I bumped into a surveyor who spoke English and confirmed this is the route. The gravel, circled, is where Kaisma Rail Baltica station will be. The arrow is roughly the route the track will take
I’ve been to some odd places on #CrossBorderRail but this is perhaps the strangest place to locate a station I’ve seen. Why here? 🤔 Even what village there is in Kaisma isn’t close
Bike parking: build these. Just these. That’s it. These stands can accommodate any type of bike. And you can lock the frame to them.
Don’t build ones where only the wheel goes in. Don’t build anything where the mechanism can go wrong.
I know this is boring. But IT WORKS!
Edit: to those going “they can be cut and taped and bikes stolen” - I know. Do I care? No, not really. Tell me a type of rack that can’t be cut with an angle grinder!
@jon with the combination of very specific time and undefined date on year 2030, this reminds me of the old soviet joke that goes bit like "a man goes to the car store to buy a car, he pays for it and gets told, ok, come back in 5 years to collect your new vehicle; he pauses for a moment and asks, morning or evening? the clerk replies, does it matter? and the man says: yes, the washing machine repairman is also due on that day"