Ahhhh 😊

[tml@mementomori.social]

@tal Have you had the opportunity to enjoy Trenitalia (machine) announcements? Very repetitive, very verbose and tedious, fairly odd English pronunciation. (One would think that when recording announcements, they would find a professional native English speaker.) You might feel forced to adjust your enthusiasm...

"tap tap mode"
"easy and convenient"
long harangue about some law including its number and date that mercifully is only in Italian
etc.

[tml@mementomori.social]

@erebion @tal How hard *what* can be? Understanding what essentially is an ad on the outside of a train?

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon And the value for money with DB tickets can be incredible. I’m working on our integration right now and testing cases like Gothenburg to Swiss/Austrian ski resorts that can come in at under 100€ door to door.

Plus if you miss a train there’s always another option available. 15-60 min delay to destination might be common, but multi-hour delays rare. Compare this to many other countries where a small problem will often end up making you 3 hours late.

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@jon
This question may be a bit too wide-ranging, but what are the perspectives to improve service in France by operators competing under open access?

[tal@mastodon.social]

@tml not even holiday, unfortunately

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@stefanlindbohm @jon Almost always – which may be a good warning label to add in Railfinder: “last connection of the day.”

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@partim Yep I have some ideas on how to do this in our journey planner. We would search extremely pessimistically first, then pick earlier connections as a plan A and keep the pessimistic as the plan B. For connections we don’t have a plan B we would have that warning. It’s quite difficult to implement technically so it’s further in the future though.

In the meantime we always recommend at least 1 hour before any night train, in some cases more. That protects a majority of cases :)

@jon

[jon@gruene.social]

@notsoloud between big cities, good. On older lines… I’m not hopeful at all.

[jon@gruene.social]

There goes a ICE to Berlin

But I’m not taking that. That’s boring

I have a little longer to wait for my more interesting option 🙂

[lollar@zug.network]

@jon thats the best type of ICE

[zugschlus@zug.network]

@jon It is an ICE 1. One of the last train of Deutsche Bahn that provides comfortable accomodation for tall people even in 2nd class?

In the new ICEs of Deutsche Bahn (ICE-L and the BR 408 with the new interior) I (193 cm, "Sitzriese") don't even fit comfortably in 1st class accomodation..

May I ask how tall you are?

[moof@cupoftea.social]

@semireg @jon And yet, they still complain more about DB than SNCF.

And the subreddit does too as a result.

So people watching the show get entirely the wrong vibes here

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@tal @tml The specific text is not super important for actual travellers, it is more of a cute "This train runs DE, NL, BE (and perhaps FR)", special livery.

[semireg@nrw.social]

@moof @jon As a result, they appear more "typically German" than they might be aware of.

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@stefanlindbohm @partim @jon Are you able to work using a cached copy of the time table, or can this result in large number of requests to the SNCF API to get the info needed ?

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@semireg @jon Or the TGV is not full if you go to Paris, but it is "full" according to SNCF if you only want to go to the next stop.

(This one has annoyed a friend of mine very recently)

[jon@gruene.social]

@Zugschlus I know it’s a ICE 1, thanks. See the alt text 🙂

And I don’t dispute those are good. I’ve just taken them too often!

[jon@gruene.social]

@lollar yes. But I’ve taken them too often.

[jon@gruene.social]

@Sobex @semireg why would anyone go anywhere except Paris?

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@jon @semireg Because they want to go to Switzerland from the Alps, obviously.