@pglux.bsky.social
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Anti-🇪🇺💶, pro-🇷🇺🇵🇸
Lover of Luxembourg older city
Mobility and spatial planning issues (mainly 🇲🇫🇱🇺🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇭🇪🇦)
Constitutionnal and fundamental liberties (mainly 🇲🇫)
Tax issues
Anti-🇪🇺💶, pro-🇷🇺🇵🇸
Lover of Luxembourg older city
Mobility and spatial planning issues (mainly 🇲🇫🇱🇺🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇭🇪🇦)
Constitutionnal and fundamental liberties (mainly 🇲🇫)
Tax issues
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@pglux.bsky.social
· Apr 20
1️⃣ Thread about one of the most improbable and extraordinary railway project which 🇨🇵 ever tried to realise.
Not in Mainland 🇲🇫, not in Corsica, but a across the Med, in the Empire: 🇲🇦🇩🇿, with extensions into 🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇩🇧🇫.
The TRANSAHARIAN 🛤️ (project)
MEDITERRANEAN - NIGER 🛤️
(At 🚧⛏️🛠️ stage)
🔜
Not in Mainland 🇲🇫, not in Corsica, but a across the Med, in the Empire: 🇲🇦🇩🇿, with extensions into 🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇩🇧🇫.
The TRANSAHARIAN 🛤️ (project)
MEDITERRANEAN - NIGER 🛤️
(At 🚧⛏️🛠️ stage)
🔜
If you want a wealth tax, it should
. apply to all taxpayers, not just the very wealthy
. replace ALL current direct taxation (Corporate Tax, Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Council Tax
. replace Stamp Duty
If it comes in addition to current taxes, you will destroy capital.
. apply to all taxpayers, not just the very wealthy
. replace ALL current direct taxation (Corporate Tax, Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Council Tax
. replace Stamp Duty
If it comes in addition to current taxes, you will destroy capital.
The country wants a wealth tax on assets.
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you want a wealth tax, it should
. apply to all taxpayers, not just the very wealthy
. replace ALL current direct taxation (Corporate Tax, Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Council Tax
. replace Stamp Duty
If it comes in addition to current taxes, you will destroy capital.
. apply to all taxpayers, not just the very wealthy
. replace ALL current direct taxation (Corporate Tax, Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Council Tax
. replace Stamp Duty
If it comes in addition to current taxes, you will destroy capital.
Some time ago, @gabrielstravels.bsky.social querried @jonworth.eu about the line Paris N ↔️ Beauvais.
A very slow and twisty line (100km/h), with unsatisfactory journey times (1hr15min), and just average frequency (1 tph).
The ⚡ beyond Persan-Beaumont (1999) has brought limited benefits.
🔜
A very slow and twisty line (100km/h), with unsatisfactory journey times (1hr15min), and just average frequency (1 tph).
The ⚡ beyond Persan-Beaumont (1999) has brought limited benefits.
🔜
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Some time ago, @gabrielstravels.bsky.social querried @jonworth.eu about the line Paris N ↔️ Beauvais.
A very slow and twisty line (100km/h), with unsatisfactory journey times (1hr15min), and just average frequency (1 tph).
The ⚡ beyond Persan-Beaumont (1999) has brought limited benefits.
🔜
A very slow and twisty line (100km/h), with unsatisfactory journey times (1hr15min), and just average frequency (1 tph).
The ⚡ beyond Persan-Beaumont (1999) has brought limited benefits.
🔜
4 years of works starting at Paris GdL
@jonworth.eu
@remicardona.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
@simplyrailways.bsky.social
@etbadaboum.bsky.social
@heard-a.bsky.social
youtu.be/vterj7olbXE?...
@jonworth.eu
@remicardona.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
@simplyrailways.bsky.social
@etbadaboum.bsky.social
@heard-a.bsky.social
youtu.be/vterj7olbXE?...
La gare de Lyon fait peau neuve
YouTube video by France 3 Paris Ile-de-France
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
4 years of works starting at Paris GdL
@jonworth.eu
@remicardona.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
@simplyrailways.bsky.social
@etbadaboum.bsky.social
@heard-a.bsky.social
youtu.be/vterj7olbXE?...
@jonworth.eu
@remicardona.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
@simplyrailways.bsky.social
@etbadaboum.bsky.social
@heard-a.bsky.social
youtu.be/vterj7olbXE?...
So the penny-pinching at SNCF keeps going on: TGV Lille - Paris is merged with TGV Arras - Paris and TERGV Lille - Arras...
And this TGV is a TERGV as far as Arras. So there are loads of people standing in the bar (that’s closed anyway)
And we’re doing 300km/h
Precisely what SNCF lobbyists in Brussels say cannot be done
Just this isn’t *officially* allowed between Arras and Paris
And we’re doing 300km/h
Precisely what SNCF lobbyists in Brussels say cannot be done
Just this isn’t *officially* allowed between Arras and Paris
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So the penny-pinching at SNCF keeps going on: TGV Lille - Paris is merged with TGV Arras - Paris and TERGV Lille - Arras...
Hard to believe that this station is served by a handful of TGV InOui and Ouigo every day.
40 years ago, it even had 3 daily TEE to/from Paris Nord.
40 years ago, it even had 3 daily TEE to/from Paris Nord.
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hard to believe that this station is served by a handful of TGV InOui and Ouigo every day.
40 years ago, it even had 3 daily TEE to/from Paris Nord.
40 years ago, it even had 3 daily TEE to/from Paris Nord.
Some background information to understand those current failures:
. 🚌 became the easy, faster, very high-frequency substitute for infrequent and slow 🚂 services from the early-80s.
Back then, most of the AP network had already been completed.
On other corridors, N roads were being upgraded 🔜
. 🚌 became the easy, faster, very high-frequency substitute for infrequent and slow 🚂 services from the early-80s.
Back then, most of the AP network had already been completed.
On other corridors, N roads were being upgraded 🔜
¿Por qué en España hay tan poca coordinación entre redes de tren y redes de bus?
▪️Líneas de tren y bus que compiten en vez de complementarse
▪️SIV en trenes no mostrando en tiempo real las correspondencias de bus o tren disponibles en la siguiente parada
▪️etc.
¿Es falta de calidad institucional?
▪️Líneas de tren y bus que compiten en vez de complementarse
▪️SIV en trenes no mostrando en tiempo real las correspondencias de bus o tren disponibles en la siguiente parada
▪️etc.
¿Es falta de calidad institucional?
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Some background information to understand those current failures:
. 🚌 became the easy, faster, very high-frequency substitute for infrequent and slow 🚂 services from the early-80s.
Back then, most of the AP network had already been completed.
On other corridors, N roads were being upgraded 🔜
. 🚌 became the easy, faster, very high-frequency substitute for infrequent and slow 🚂 services from the early-80s.
Back then, most of the AP network had already been completed.
On other corridors, N roads were being upgraded 🔜
Sorry to disagree, but Farage will most probably restore quite a few lost or eroded civil liberties.
Demonisation and scaremongering lead to nowhere.
Demonisation and scaremongering lead to nowhere.
Labour is turning Britain into an authoritarian state.
That’s bad enough now.
But imagine what a Nigel Farage government will build on all these authoritarian foundations.
That’s bad enough now.
But imagine what a Nigel Farage government will build on all these authoritarian foundations.
Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Sorry to disagree, but Farage will most probably restore quite a few lost or eroded civil liberties.
Demonisation and scaremongering lead to nowhere.
Demonisation and scaremongering lead to nowhere.
So, how could HSR have taken shape in 🇪🇦 a more consistent and orderly way?
Temptative alternate history
1986: 🇪🇦 joins 🇪🇺
NAFA to be done in 1 single stage (Madrid PdA - Sevilla SJ) with 1435mm
Award of Summer Olympics 1992 to Barcelona leads to the construction of HSL Perpignan - Barcelona.
🔜
Temptative alternate history
1986: 🇪🇦 joins 🇪🇺
NAFA to be done in 1 single stage (Madrid PdA - Sevilla SJ) with 1435mm
Award of Summer Olympics 1992 to Barcelona leads to the construction of HSL Perpignan - Barcelona.
🔜
If 🇪🇦 were 🇨🇭, the advancement of HSR would have been way more orderly, and at some stage a genuine plan for nationwide re-gauging would have come.
🔚
🔚
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So, how could HSR have taken shape in 🇪🇦 a more consistent and orderly way?
Temptative alternate history
1986: 🇪🇦 joins 🇪🇺
NAFA to be done in 1 single stage (Madrid PdA - Sevilla SJ) with 1435mm
Award of Summer Olympics 1992 to Barcelona leads to the construction of HSL Perpignan - Barcelona.
🔜
Temptative alternate history
1986: 🇪🇦 joins 🇪🇺
NAFA to be done in 1 single stage (Madrid PdA - Sevilla SJ) with 1435mm
Award of Summer Olympics 1992 to Barcelona leads to the construction of HSL Perpignan - Barcelona.
🔜
In 🇫🇷, it translates as "Saint-Siège" rather than "Saint-Tabouret" 🤭😊
TIL in Czech people call the Vatican "the Holy Stool," and the word stool has the same polysemy as in English. @bahnhof.cz
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In 🇫🇷, it translates as "Saint-Siège" rather than "Saint-Tabouret" 🤭😊
The good side of Communist low-tech 😋🥰🥳
Our 64 year old ET21 locomotive powers on through the snow, while many of the modern units running today struggle to keep going... 😁
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The good side of Communist low-tech 😋🥰🥳
TGV M on trials in Bologna San Donato 🇮🇹
@jonworth.eu
@chittimarco.bsky.social
youtu.be/1VIF1L97TmA?...
@jonworth.eu
@chittimarco.bsky.social
youtu.be/1VIF1L97TmA?...
IL NUOVO TGV-M ARRIVA IN ITALIA: PRIME PROVE nel circuito di Bologna San Donato!
YouTube video by Akiem483
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
TGV M on trials in Bologna San Donato 🇮🇹
@jonworth.eu
@chittimarco.bsky.social
youtu.be/1VIF1L97TmA?...
@jonworth.eu
@chittimarco.bsky.social
youtu.be/1VIF1L97TmA?...
East Germany claimed itself as "the Germany of Labourers and Peasants"
West then United Germany is primarily an "expertocracy".
West then United Germany is primarily an "expertocracy".
This German obsession of studying everything to death instead of *acting*
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
East Germany claimed itself as "the Germany of Labourers and Peasants"
West then United Germany is primarily an "expertocracy".
West then United Germany is primarily an "expertocracy".
Are you sure about it? 🤭
The French president doesn't cheat on his wife, though.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Are you sure about it? 🤭
Typically, 350 instead of 300 saves 12 min per 400km.
Is there any consensus at what distance it makes sense to build HSR to a 350 km/h standard rather than a 300 km/h one?
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Typically, 350 instead of 300 saves 12 min per 400km.
🚈 extension from Roubaix to Wattrelos will terminate sooooo close to Herseaux 🇧🇪
@jonworth.eu
@jonworth.eu
Savez Vous ?
#Lille
L'enquête publique du tramway sur la partie Nord Est de la Métropole démarre ce jour jusqu'au 14/01/26
➡️ www.registre-numerique.fr/enquete-publ...
Synthèse projet :
- 20,5 km / 38 stations
- 720M€
- 75-85 000 voy/j
- Ouv entre 2033 et 2035
#Lille
L'enquête publique du tramway sur la partie Nord Est de la Métropole démarre ce jour jusqu'au 14/01/26
➡️ www.registre-numerique.fr/enquete-publ...
Synthèse projet :
- 20,5 km / 38 stations
- 720M€
- 75-85 000 voy/j
- Ouv entre 2033 et 2035
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🚈 extension from Roubaix to Wattrelos will terminate sooooo close to Herseaux 🇧🇪
@jonworth.eu
@jonworth.eu
350 will most likely save 20min.
The shortcut Lleida - Barcelona will save a good 10min.
The shortcut Lleida - Barcelona will save a good 10min.
The rail press is euphoric about this idea to up the speed of the Madrid - Barcelona line from 300 to 350km/h
https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/63169-spanien-oscar-puente-kuendigt-massnahmen-zur-erhoehung-der-hoechstgeschwindigkeit-auf-der-strecke-madrid-barcelona-auf-350-km-h-an.html […]
https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/63169-spanien-oscar-puente-kuendigt-massnahmen-zur-erhoehung-der-hoechstgeschwindigkeit-auf-der-strecke-madrid-barcelona-auf-350-km-h-an.html […]
Original post on gruene.social
gruene.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
350 will most likely save 20min.
The shortcut Lleida - Barcelona will save a good 10min.
The shortcut Lleida - Barcelona will save a good 10min.
That treaty also provided for a 🇫🇷🇮🇹 customs union.
Which never came into force.
Which never came into force.
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
That treaty also provided for a 🇫🇷🇮🇹 customs union.
Which never came into force.
Which never came into force.
It reminds me of the 2 daily daytime services connecting Hamburg A with Scandinavia beyond 🇩🇰:
. 1 to Stockholm C
. 1 to Oslo S.
2 🚢 crossings (🇩🇪🇩🇰+🇩🇰🇸🇪)
Axed in 1995 or 1996.
. 1 to Stockholm C
. 1 to Oslo S.
2 🚢 crossings (🇩🇪🇩🇰+🇩🇰🇸🇪)
Axed in 1995 or 1996.
👍 Snälltåget is offering a Stockholm - København - Hamburg DAYTIME #CrossBorderRail train next year https://www.snalltaget.se/en/day-train-hamburg-copenhagen-stockholm
👎 No way to take bikes on it (yeah, Snäll is as bad as SJ in this regard, and an […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
👎 No way to take bikes on it (yeah, Snäll is as bad as SJ in this regard, and an […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It reminds me of the 2 daily daytime services connecting Hamburg A with Scandinavia beyond 🇩🇰:
. 1 to Stockholm C
. 1 to Oslo S.
2 🚢 crossings (🇩🇪🇩🇰+🇩🇰🇸🇪)
Axed in 1995 or 1996.
. 1 to Stockholm C
. 1 to Oslo S.
2 🚢 crossings (🇩🇪🇩🇰+🇩🇰🇸🇪)
Axed in 1995 or 1996.
🇫🇷: As Regio2N / Omneo Premium orders are drying up, Alstom Crespin may close down.
www.usinenouvelle.com/article/sans...
www.usinenouvelle.com/article/sans...
«Sans nouvelle commande, nous devrons arrêter la production des TER à Crespin », prévient Frédéric Wiscart, président d’Alstom France
Dans une interview accordée à L'Usine Nouvelle, le président d’Alstom France Frédéric Wiscart revient sur la situation de l’usine...-Ferroviaire
www.usinenouvelle.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🇫🇷: As Regio2N / Omneo Premium orders are drying up, Alstom Crespin may close down.
www.usinenouvelle.com/article/sans...
www.usinenouvelle.com/article/sans...
Some earthquake seemingly displaced Varese and Porto Ceresio between Rho and Novara 🙃🤭🤣
RFI's multi-year capital plan gives me increasing "graphic design is my passion" vibes.
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
I bet they are using PowerPoint or an equivalent to draw these service diagrams...
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some earthquake seemingly displaced Varese and Porto Ceresio between Rho and Novara 🙃🤭🤣
Glad to see Madrid - Barcelona upgraded to 350.
2hrs sharp on Madrid PdA - Barcelona Sants means 310km/h average speed.
With AVRiL 2.0?
@jonworth.eu
@enriqueandres.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
2hrs sharp on Madrid PdA - Barcelona Sants means 310km/h average speed.
With AVRiL 2.0?
@jonworth.eu
@enriqueandres.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
Puente anuncia que la alta velocidad ferroviaria llegará a 350 kilómetros por hora: el viaje Madrid-Barcelona se hará en dos horas.
Para mí una gran noticia y ya era hora.
cincodias.elpais.com/economia/202...
Para mí una gran noticia y ya era hora.
cincodias.elpais.com/economia/202...
Puente anuncia que la alta velocidad ferroviaria llegará a 350 kilómetros por hora: el viaje Madrid-Barcelona se hará en dos horas
La adaptación a las nuevas prestaciones comenzará en el eje más transitado del país por su alta saturación y necesidad de reformas
cincodias.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Glad to see Madrid - Barcelona upgraded to 350.
2hrs sharp on Madrid PdA - Barcelona Sants means 310km/h average speed.
With AVRiL 2.0?
@jonworth.eu
@enriqueandres.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu
2hrs sharp on Madrid PdA - Barcelona Sants means 310km/h average speed.
With AVRiL 2.0?
@jonworth.eu
@enriqueandres.bsky.social
@tristramg.eu