Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Day 18, 5 Oct, Wien - Bratislava – Wien, onwards on night train
Today I’m crossing these borders
Rusovce 🇸🇰 - Rajka 🇭🇺
Nickelsdorf 🇦🇹 - Hegyeshalom 🇭🇺
Kittsee 🇦🇹 - Bratislava-Petržalka 🇸🇰
Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#7/48.358/14.489
Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-18/
Here’s today’s intro video, explaining why today’s updates will be a little different to normal
If you’re asked to speak at a Q&A at an event *and need to read from notes to respond to the questions*, that either means you don’t know your topic well, or it’s not a genuine Q&A. Neither is a good look. #WorldPassengerFestival
Oleksandr Shevchenko from Ukrainian Railways. Amazing stories, super guy.
Renfe asked what his favourite innovation was cites that Renfe was the first firm to introduce a supercomputer in Spain in the 1960s 😂 #WorldPassengerFestival
I’m taking no lessons on innovation from Renfe. None.
This is a rail firm incapable of putting all its trains in one searchable database.
Incapable of announcing timetables of InterCity trains more than a month in advance.
Incapable of delivering proper real time data in an app.
Awful firm.
Ah. 90% of our trains are electric Renfe dude says. Yeah. Because on any branch line you run like 1 a day, Renfe. Pfff.
Oh and hydrogen klaxon.
Oh and “we want to be a mobility as a service platform”
Oh seriously f*** off
Until you have a proper timetable *of your own trains* then why the hell should I trust you can be a MaaS platform, Renfe?
Errr. We’re not actually going to get the Regulation. And it was never a Directive AFAIK. This worries me.
And the dude doesn’t know it has been shelved. Oh f*********. 🤬
You’ve asked someone to present about MDMS who doesn’t know the current legislative situation.
And sorry Jens Tångefjord. You just gave a speech about MDMS Regulation *not knowing it had been shelved*
I’m aware me standing up at the end of your speech telling a hundred people it had been shelved might have sounded a bit nasty, but you should have known this before giving a speech about the topic!
