Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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But the crux is this: the Court of Auditors does not mess around. When they check things, they check. They dig. They work. Their report on high speed rail infra a few years ago was excellent.
So hopefully something solid on rail services, cross border, will emerge from this.
@jon Thanks a lot for contributing your expertise, and your time!
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@trantion @pseudomonas please don’t get me to do cable cars. There are some alpine ones too!
@jon @trantion @pseudomonas Cross border Cable car to San Marino since it's all uphills anyways
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In the end on the Court of Auditors thing, it is once more a problem of being a freelancer in a sector with no freelancers, and so once more I am doing complicated intellectual work for free
BUT when they ask me a question about a railway topic I can answer it straight up. No need to defend what a company tells me, what a senior manager decides. I think a few unvarnished comments about the problems are helpful for them to frame their work
@jon
Organizations don't like dissenting opinions. I also make myself unpopular from time to time, to a slightly lesser extent. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7457134592383320065/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7457134592383320065%2C7457172433134026752%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287457172433134026752%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7457134592383320065%29
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But the crux is this: the Court of Auditors does not mess around. When they check things, they check. They dig. They work. Their report on high speed rail infra a few years ago was excellent.
So hopefully something solid on rail services, cross border, will emerge from this.
@jon What is the report they're working on about more specifically? Is there somewhere I can read about it?
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But the crux is this: the Court of Auditors does not mess around. When they check things, they check. They dig. They work. Their report on high speed rail infra a few years ago was excellent.
So hopefully something solid on rail services, cross border, will emerge from this.
That was a horrid wet cycle ride. I’ve done only half, the rest will be a bus!
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That was a horrid wet cycle ride. I’ve done only half, the rest will be a bus!
@jon welcome to Belgium! We've even got a weather warning for the amount of rain these days
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@jon welcome to Belgium! We've even got a weather warning for the amount of rain these days
@berend the rivers around Bastogne were flowing fast I can confirm!
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@berend the rivers around Bastogne were flowing fast I can confirm!
@jon you should've brought a kayak!
