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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread The joy of separate railway enterprises (complex fares in France).I have found this page now: https://www.ter.sncf.com/hauts-de-france/tarifs-cartes/autres-tarifs-ter/billet-tarif-normal-avec-idf Using...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Trivia - Bus routes which change countries.Here's a fairly comprehensive list of cross-border public transport to and from Germany...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread The joy of separate railway enterprises (complex fares in France).Since 2016, §131 Abs. 3 GWB means that when the operator changes, the German equivalent of TUPE (§613a BGB) applies
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread The joy of separate railway enterprises (complex fares in France).French régions have been responsable for organising local trains since 2002, the Fourth Railway Package was adopted in 2016. I think we...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Copenhagen 'tourist tax' on non-EU card payments.You could try asking the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer protection agency) what the rules around displaying fees for foreign non-EU cards...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..Did you read everything in the link that you sent? It does talk about the commercial operations that I am talking about under "Private...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..There are complex calculations where the Verkehrsverbünde refund the difference between the Verbund price and the commercial price of...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Things which cause bus boarding/alighting to be slower now than 40 years ago..This isn't true for Germany at least: many bus routes are actually operated on a for-profit basis without public subsidies. Less so in...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Italo to compete in German high-speed market.A couple of days ago, Bundesnetzagentur, the federal competition regulator has decided that DB InfraGO must enable more competition in...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Hauts-de-France contract won by SNCF voyageurs.The 500,000 km/year limit from article 5 subsection 4 is a different exception, it refers to a direct award to any kind of company (i.e...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Hauts-de-France contract won by SNCF voyageurs.What I'm trying to say is this: Hauts-de-France could have, if it wanted to, set up its own train company to run their TER services...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Hauts-de-France contract won by SNCF voyageurs.Well, the exception "a local train authority can decide to operate its train operations itself", which applies everywhere and for a...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Hauts-de-France contract won by SNCF voyageurs.To add to rvdborgt's comment, this can be found in the amended EU regulation 1370/2007, article 5, subsection 2 ...
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UU-Bahnfreund replied to the thread Hauts-de-France contract won by SNCF voyageurs.Any French region has - at least according to EU law, not sure about French regulations - the freedom to run their region's train...