How’s your morning?
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How’s your morning?
I’ve woken up to a French know it all on LinkedIn describing this https://jonworth.eu/how-to-safely-overload-a-high-speed-train-and-why-it-matters-for-the-debate-about-ticketing-reform-in-the-eu/ as an anti SNCF rant
And that the solution is to make German trains more reliable
Dude, really. We’d all love that. But until we have that we need solutions to allow others better cope with disruptions!
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@jon I had conversations with some Frenchies and they were mostly just shocked upon hearing that in terms of passenger comfort, basically any ICE in Germany easily wins over TGV without even trying too hard
Idk I feel like they've been told again and again that TGV is a world class masterpiece of engineering and there's nothing better than that so they believe it
Especially when they don't have a chance to travel by train outside of France
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How’s your morning?
I’ve woken up to a French know it all on LinkedIn describing this https://jonworth.eu/how-to-safely-overload-a-high-speed-train-and-why-it-matters-for-the-debate-about-ticketing-reform-in-the-eu/ as an anti SNCF rant
And that the solution is to make German trains more reliable
Dude, really. We’d all love that. But until we have that we need solutions to allow others better cope with disruptions!
@jon I just looked up the TGV on-time performance. It hovers around 80% which isn’t that great either. What saves them is that there are barely any TGV-to-TGV transfers, so it doesn’t matter all that much.
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@jon I just looked up the TGV on-time performance. It hovers around 80% which isn’t that great either. What saves them is that there are barely any TGV-to-TGV transfers, so it doesn’t matter all that much.
@partim also what I’m proposing here isn’t even radical. It’s a simple idea to add a little more flexibility and - as far as I can tell - with no downside. But while non French think it’s ok, French think I’m a heretic.
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@partim also what I’m proposing here isn’t even radical. It’s a simple idea to add a little more flexibility and - as far as I can tell - with no downside. But while non French think it’s ok, French think I’m a heretic.
@jon You are proposing to formalise a thing that is already being done informally and arbitrarily. I am given to understand that that is not how things are done in France.
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@jon You are proposing to formalise a thing that is already being done informally and arbitrarily. I am given to understand that that is not how things are done in France.
@partim the problem is you’ve got to be either pushy or outright trick SNCF to get it. While this might be a French national pastime, I’m not keen on rules setup like that. And I think I’m not alone.
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@partim the problem is you’ve got to be either pushy or outright trick SNCF to get it. While this might be a French national pastime, I’m not keen on rules setup like that. And I think I’m not alone.
@jon Also, you’re fucked if you don’t speak French. Which I don’t. So: Merci, mais non merci.
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How’s your morning?
I’ve woken up to a French know it all on LinkedIn describing this https://jonworth.eu/how-to-safely-overload-a-high-speed-train-and-why-it-matters-for-the-debate-about-ticketing-reform-in-the-eu/ as an anti SNCF rant
And that the solution is to make German trains more reliable
Dude, really. We’d all love that. But until we have that we need solutions to allow others better cope with disruptions!
@jon haha overloading? By my experience in UK passengers just pile in until there is absolutely zero physical space left. I make sure to take a robust bag that I can sit on in the space between carraiages. It's common for pass not to be able to get to toilets & train managers unable to walk down train. But of course I've never seen them allow the pleb into 1st class, regardless.
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