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Has anyone been on an eCitaro yet? If so, how does it compare to other electric buses such as the VDL Citea SLF(A) in terms of ride quality and noise?

Swiss railways publish the percentage of passengers who make all their connections and arrive less than three minutes late. How do they calculate this?

The TfL single fare finder gives a fare of £1.50 off-peak from Tottenham Hale to West Croydon, if you go through Stratford and use the Pink validator at Canada Water. https://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/fares-guide/guide-to-fare-scales/ looks like that route is covered by the TfL-Ang fare scale...

Many if not most northern European cities (outside the UK and Ireland) have many air-conditioning buses, but why not Paris, especially given the notorious heatwaves often experienced there?

I think the Irizar ie tram is the best electric bus I've been on so far and IMO comes close to a tram like experience. The VDL Citea electric buses are very good and I've ridden on many of them but I think the Irizar is preferable. I took several rides in Amiens on their new BRT system. It...

The barriers at City Thameslink are advertising mobile tickets. It appears you can get e-tickets from City Thameslink to: St Albans Luton Airport Parkway Luton Bedford Stevenage but not to: Gatwick Airport Flitwick Hitchin Peterborough Harpenden Leagrave

Looks like Brighton & Hove and Metrobus share the same opinion as Trent Barton, despite introducing contactless for buying paper tickets less than a year ago: https://www.buses.co.uk/contactless-ticket-payments-and-tap-tap https://www.metrobus.co.uk/contactless/

According to https://www.treinreiziger.nl/fnv-flixbus-doekt-tegen-de-afspraken-in-eurolines-nederland-op/ Flixbus are closing the Eurolines offices in Amsterdam (Duivendrecht), Rotterdam and Den Haag. Does this mean Eurolines services will no longer go to the Duivendrecht coach station and...

On long trains in SE England it is extremely common for passengers to put feet on the opposite seat where seats face each other. So do you sit in those seats knowing that people may well have had their feet on them?

Have any of the commuter TOCs started cutting the number of coaches provided on Fridays, in response to fewer people going to work on that day?

The 32 km Afsluitdijk cycle path, which is to the side of the motorway crossing between Noord-Holland and Friesland provinces in the north of the Netherlands, is closed for three years so that extensive water works can take place. So a free hourly bus service is being provided, which can carry...

Are displays on train platforms now showing passenger loadings in each carriage? On platform 4 at Gatwick Airport this morning the display showed a diagram of the soon to be arriving 8 coach Gatwick Express train with a number of horizontal lines inside each coach, varying from none to three...

There have been conflicting threads on this over the years and no satisfactory ruling, as far as I can recall.

According to: https://nos.nl/artikel/2291781-ov-chipkaart-verdwijnt-mogelijk-in-2023.html (translated by Google): "The current public transport chip card may disappear in 2023. According to State Secretary Van Veldhoven, the technology is due for replacement. In a letter to carriers and other...

The replacement for the traditional t+ ticket used on Paris transport was introduced a few days ago. The Navigo Easy smartcard costs 2.00 and you can load single, carnet and day tickets onto it. However, given the fares are the same as the paper equivalents and is only valid on the metro at...

Anyone know much about the new BRT system in Amiens, northern France, which uses a substantial fleet of 43 electric buses charged by pantograph? https://www.sustainable-bus.com/electric-bus/keolis-operates-a-new-brt-in-amiens-with-43-irizar-electric-buses/ For example, how much of the route is...

On a visit to Manchester, I saw adverts on tram stops saying that pay as you go is coming, but no start date is given https://tfgm.com/public-transport/tram/contactless Interestingly, they say How can they prove that you haven't touched in during an inspection? TfL can't tell so the worst...

There are at least two Eurolines websites, www.eurolines.eu and www.eurolines.de. www.eurolines.com diverts to www.eurolines.de The two sites offer some of the same services but some routes are only one one site. For example: Paris to Amsterdam is offered on both sites Manchester to Warsaw...

Malpensa airport is served by the Malpensa Express which runs to Milano Nord Cardorna every 30 minutes and Milano Centrale every 30 minutes. The fare from the city centre to the airport is 13.00 whereas the fare between the city centre and Busto Arsizio is 4.00 and the fare between Busto...

Global Radio are to network Capital, Heart and Smooth breakfast shows, meaning the end of most local breakfast shows from Global Radio. https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/02/global-to-network-capital-heart-and-smooth-breakfast-shows/ No doubt Bauer will do the same with their stations.