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No - the only proven way to get people out of their cars is when car use is restricted - ie remove parking, pedestrianise or introduce charging

Most rail schemes attract most of their passengers from the bus network and new users, the numbers attracted from cars is minimal regardless of whether its an urban or intercity service.

Very rarely in my experience - but it only takes one to find out you are not travelling on a valid ticket. 1663509043 Eurail and Interrail are nothing to do with the EU - they are designed to encourage use of the rail network in countries other than the one a person lives in. Interrail was set...

Villach to Zagreb, a loco hauled 2 coach train, over half a full train were using interrail tickets, Divaca to Pula, a very empty 2 car DMU maybe 25 passengers, vast majority were using interrail passes. Colleagues who were travelling in the far north of Sweden and on rural branchlines said the...

On a number of trains on some of the more obscure routes in Europe, the vast majority of passengers are interrail pass holders and all rail staff met to date know exactly what the ticket is. Yet I cant recall seeing anyone using Interrail tickets in the UK except on Eurostar. How often do rail...

Just travelled from Ljubjana to Pula with an old SZ series 711 from Divaca. Its like traveling back 50 years in time, stations with only a couple of trains a day still have their station masters. Train at best 10% full and of those the vast majority were interrailing. Passports get checked...

It was the service to Mühldorf - another very empty train

Presently interrailing and my observations are France - TGV - nice bar Italy - hit by short notice strike - no-one seemed to know what may or may not be running Switzerland - varied - frequent trains but often full of fresh air - waiting for connections means train got later and later...

Queues for the Queen Mother's lying in state were estimated at between 4-6 hrs with 200,000 people attending

Speaking to a couple of SBB officials yesterday, they stated leisure demand was higher than pre-covid but commuting was still considerably less and fluctuating so they still haven't been able to assess what the new normal will be. The German €9 ticket saw urban rail demand increase by around...

Climate change is having a material impact on agricultural production - we have seen supermarkets introducing open rationing (limiting the number of items you can buy which is pointless as those who want to stockpile just make more trips) and hidden rationing (reducing the range of items...

The last 12 months have seen global food markets under severe pressure leading to increased prices for virtually all foods. The Russian invasion of Ukraine saw wheat prices double and shortages of sunflower oil Droughts have played havoc with crops in Europe and China with yields down Floods...

Cakeism is the worst legacy of this government, the idea you can have what you want and there are no trade-offs. Some European governments are openly talking about energy rationing and legally requiring thermostats to be turned down. Last time we had an energy crisis in the 1970s the UK...

Many "attractions" have canteen arrangements eg zoos, amusement parks - they presumably work best when you need to serve large numbers of people at roughly the same time. Not sure if food hygiene regulations have killed some of them. There was one place I was at a number of years ago where the...

With each of the known data being a constraining factor it should be possible to come up with a reasonable guestimate but would need considerable computing power to do so - effectively trying to solve a few million simultaneous equations.

Because our immigration and customs rules means that you are not allowed to carry domestic and international passengers on the same train so the economics don't stack up. If you could have run a two hourly train from Birmingham to Paris that was allowed to pick up and set down at Old Oak Common...

depends what you mean by scrutiny - in relation to language in these few cases then no - but in regard to everything else ie employer, pay etc then yes. Not sure there will be many employers paying the going rate for skilled work who don't need a reasonable degree of English ability - chefs may...

@AlterEgo has outlined the few exceptions which are based on the assumed native language spoken by the residents of those countries - if there are any other exceptions I'm sure you will let us know