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DiegoBeghin

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Docteur en physique, data scientist, belgo-brésilien. Vélo et transports publics.

Blog: metrovelododo.wordpress.com

I speak: EN-FR-PT-ES. Learning DE, but it's still bad.

Fan of Paradox games since EU3.

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Love Mastodon during the 🔥

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - 2024 Extra Days 7 May - La Ciotat - Nice - Ventimiglia - Limone - Breil-sur-Roya - Nice - La Ciotat

Crossing these borders:
Cap d'Ail 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨
Monte Carlo Country Club 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨
Ventimiglia 🇮🇹 - Menton Garavan 🇫🇷
Olivetta-S. Michele 🇮🇹 - Breil-sur-Roya 🇫🇷
Limone 🇮🇹 - Vievola 🇫🇷

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/43.9647/7.5998

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#9/43.7562/7.0367

DiegoBeghin,
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@jon Surprising that it's so crowded! Mostly tourists?

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Ah

Integrated public transport, don’t you just love it

I need to take a train at 06:03 from La Ciotat to Toulon tomorrow

First bus from town to the station: arrives 06:27, which also misses the train to Marseille as well by 2 minutes 👏

Google Maps bus timetables showing first bus to station arriving 06:27
Departures tomorrow morning from La Ciotat

DiegoBeghin,
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@pony @jon Welcome to Southern France's car-oriented urbanism. All the fancy jobs are in suburbs like Sophia Antipolis or Aix-en-Provence

DiegoBeghin,
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@pony @jon Well yeah when the car is that much more convenient, everyone uses it. And for work trips efficiency is especially valuable.

I'm reminded of the time a head hunter offered me a job in the region and as a selling point she said "well if you live on the correct side of town the traffic jams aren't too bad"

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@pony @jon Cars are normalised in the land use so much that people don't even think about it anymore. Despite the horrible traffic jams they're still more convenient. Public transit is for people who both live and work in Marseille, and you better live near the metro.

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@pony I get seasick very easily, and those roads give me the same effect :(

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@Alon @pony tbh I'd rather be sleepy than nauseous. Last month I was on Amalfi coast* with my parents and I think I would've been less seasick taking the boat on that calm bright sunny day.

*That's the next level in winding coastal roads, we were doing no more than 20-30 km/h but still lots of lateral acceleration. Plus I was navigating on google maps, which didn't help

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@Alon @pony I've been on a rickety diesel Gap-Valence TER. Zaragoza-Bilbao also felt like a bus.

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Are there good histories of the origin of the social democrat/green split? Because these days those parties are extremely similar throughout Europe (and in the Netherlands they just merged), and generally they prefer to govern with each other when possible.

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@BenRossTransit @Alon The Greens have a New Left ideology so in a way they are the feminist party. They're at the forefront of demands for gender equality, and they do things like electing two co-presidents, one man and one woman (the German Greens do this too, right?).

I think it's easier to brand your party as Green but you also do other New Left activism than branding it Feminist but you also care about the environment. There is or was a feminist party in Sweden and it didn't grow much?

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@Alon @BenRossTransit Baerbock does seem to be way more competent, she's been a good foreign minister

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What's worse?

DiegoBeghin,
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@Alon Neom is still entirely fictional AFAIK so I'm going with Noem

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SNCF

We’re going to run trains at 300km/h on part of the route to Valenciennes 💪

We’re going to spend 15 minutes stopped. Even though there are only 2 stops 🤷‍♂️

DiegoBeghin,
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@jon I guess they're splitting the train in Douai?

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Pedestrian Observations: Frequency in Units of Distance https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/04/23/frequency-in-units-of-distance/ <3 @Colinvparker

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@Colinvparker @Alon Thanks for discussing this, it's really interesting. So in the Swiss example you could be taking an hourly bus to St Gallen (1 vehicle per route) with a timed connection to a twice hourly train to Zurich (4 vehicles) and another twice hourly train to Basel (4 vehicles). So that's 9 vehicles total on the route, which is what you expect when the frequency is decent enough.

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@Colinvparker @Alon Yeah the Swiss do targeted investments to make sure trains going opposite directions do meet each other at stations, and to make sure their schedules are reliable. They will also hold trains for a few minutes if a connection would otherwise barely be missed.

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@Colinvparker @Alon It's harder to make buses reliable because of traffic and also because travel time depends more strongly on crowding. Both issues are much less relevant in a rural area, though.

In a city the size of Atlanta I don't think timing bus connections will work, you really need more frequency. The conclusion from Alon's post seems to be that you want to focus on a core network with high frequency, TOD aggressively and hopefully expand from there.

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“Cooperation” between state owned railway companies Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷, don't you love it

Train 1273, summertime only, runs whole way Pula 🇭🇷 - Divača 🇸🇮

On HŽPP site: shows Pula - Buzet (border station)
On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača

Only 🥁 Deutsche Bahn 🇩🇪 shows the whole lot 🤪 #CrossBorderRail

On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača - screenshot
Pula - Divača on Deutsche Bahn site

DiegoBeghin,
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@jon It's funny that what DB does best is the timetable app. Not something Germany is stereotypically good at.

DiegoBeghin,
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@apicultor @jon Oh I meant the digital infrastructure, I was thinking of the fax jokes about the German civil service.

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This is for @adapalmer's tag: the energy transition is (too slowly) happening, to the point that on current actions, it's expected that global warming by 2100 will amount to 2.7° C, vs. 3.9° 10 years ago; if pledges are taken into account then it's 2.1°, vs. 3.1° 10 years ago. 2.7° is really bad but not apocalyptic; 2.1° is bad but on about the same order of magnitude as existing war refugee events (Syria, Sudan, etc.).

DiegoBeghin,
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@Alon @adapalmer Wasn't it the Copenhagen COP in 2008 where everyone agreed 2C of warming was the goal? I remember the doomer line back then was that we wouldn't even manage that.

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When Enrico Letta speaks of significant gaps in Europe’s high speed train network https://orf.at/stories/3354759/ what should be built?

Rail Baltica, Lyon-Turin, Montpellier-Perpignan, Dresden-Prague, most of Madrid-Lisbon, lines across Poland are in planning

Ok, Ljubljana & Zagreb are hard. Faster to Budapest. Speed up Amsterdam-Hamburg/Berlin. Then what? High speed to Bucharest, Sofia, Athens?

DiegoBeghin,
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@jon The Rhine-Ruhr region needs more rail tracks in general, it's already a bottleneck and it will get worse with increased service.

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Pedestrian Observations: What is Incrementalism, Anyway? https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/04/14/what-is-incrementalism-anyway/

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@Alon Side note: there's no more need to talk separately of the pricing policies of Thalys and Eurostar, it's all Eurostar now since the merger.

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Iran is confirmed to have launched dozens of UAVs and cruise missiles to attack Israel, in retaliation for the assassination of an IRGC commander in Syria. The drones are slow and will take six to nine hours to get there; the missiles are faster and estimated to make contact in two hours.

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@Alon @Colinvparker I was always baffled by this logic, wasn't the best way to make Russia back off to show strong commitment from the start? It took an entire autumn and winter campaign of Russian bombing before anyone started even preparing Ukrainians to get Western jets.

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At the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025, Grand Est Mobilités will take over 16 TER 2N NG five car double deckers from Normandy, scheduled to replace the current three car double deckers on the Luxembourg - Metz - Nancy service that have overcrowding issues. Luxembourg is paying half of the 105 million euro costs to build a new maintenance facility near Metz for these trains.

DiegoBeghin,
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@smveerman It's weird to run such short double deckers. Are the platforms that short?

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Thinking about languages and self, and who I speak what languages with and in which context. I go to a Vietnamese Chinese spot where I speak Teochew to the old people, English to the younger people; but when the old people are in the conversation we all switch to Teochew. Meanwhile, they can take orders in Cantonese and Vietnamese in the same sentence. One time I brought a Vietnamese friend and they spoke Cantonese to her immediately tho they’d never met. The aunties said ‘she had canto vibes’

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@skinnylatte My family moved to Brazil when I was 7. My brother and I used to speak French to each other but after the move we switched to Portuguese (there was a weird period when it could be either). I guess we were still young enough to switch languages, nowadays it feels weird to talk in any other language.

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@Alon @skinnylatte When we're all together with my parents and my brother we all speak mostly Portuguese though there's usually some French mixed in.

And since the languages are so close, if you forget a word you can also borrow it from the other language, just changing the pronunciation. e.g. wood: madeira (real word in PT) -> madère (doesn't actually exist).

Well nowadays it's rare for just the 4 of us to meet, with my brother and I having partners, so we need to speak a standard language.

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