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2025-09-02T20:38:21Z

In österreichischen Medien erfährt gerade eine ...

2025-08-21T11:40:34Z

In österreichischen Medien erfährt gerade eine Greenpeace-Studie zu Preisen für Zug- und Flugreisen auf verschiedenen Relationen viel Aufmerksamkeit. Als schlimmster Fall wo die durchschnittliche Zugreise bedeutend teurer ist als die durchschnittliche Zugreise wird Wien-London aufgeführt - als Begründung allerdings nur “Ryanair” und “niedrige Flughafengebühren”. Die Tatsache dass Eurostar absolut absurde Preise aufruft kommt nirgends vor.

ok, aber darf dieser Zug jetzt in den Trockner, und bei wieviel ...

2025-05-17T10:49:33Z

ok, aber darf dieser Zug jetzt in den Trockner, und bei wieviel Grad muss ich ihn waschen?

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2025-02-27T08:14:38Z

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Proposal for new Mainz Hbf station signage ...

2025-01-13T21:22:51Z

Proposal for new Mainz Hbf station signage

Significantly less important, but nonetheless disliked by yours ...

2024-11-27T14:07:33Z

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Significantly less important, but nonetheless disliked by yours truly, is the utterly weird interior design of these trains. What is this, I know you're proud of cork, but like, this looks like an elementary school classroom 😭

One of the questionable choices of this system is the line ...

2024-11-27T12:35:20Z

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One of the questionable choices of this system is the line designations. If I'm not mistaken, this is the only major metro network in Europe to rely entirely on color identification of the lines (Stockholm has color names for their lines as well, but the branches do have numbers). There are good reasons why this practice should be highly discouraged. Yes, the combination of colors and symbols is kind of pretty, but not really obvious to understand - especially on the station signs, this looks more like a symbol for the station. But the combination of "line color and designator" (numbers, letters, name if need be) has proven to be the gold standard, at least outside the United States.

In order to make the system more navigable for colorblind people, there is now an effort to introduce a system of easy-to-confuse symbols based on color addition to translate the colors. At least, this seems to be a consistent effort across Portugal, I have seen these in use on the Porto Metro and on Carris network maps as well. But seriously, just name your lines A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever, I don't care. Color names suck!

:lisboa_m: Metro de Lisboa is... nice I guess. I don't know, ...

2024-11-27T12:16:42Z

:lisboa_m: Metro de Lisboa is... nice I guess. I don't know, this network really didn't get me all that excited. A full metro system with 7.5 minute headways in the city center (ok, it was weekends, but still) just feels kind of sad. The system dates back to the 50s, but it underwent extensive expansion and modernization in the 90s and early 2000s, which in turn means that everything now mostly feels very dated to that era. There are actually quite a lot of things I value - individual appearance of stations, a consistent signage system, space for art, a distinctive vehicle design - it's just that most of the times, the choices they made just don't really resonate with me, so my lack of excitement about this system is more based on my personal impressions than on objective flaws, with a few exceptions, such as the really poor passenger information or the annoyingly slow fare gates.

yeah, the only tiny parts which aren’t densely built-up are ...

2024-09-12T13:38:36Z

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yeah, the only tiny parts which aren’t densely built-up are Steurs, Jardin Botanique and the part of Bruxelles-Nord belonging to it. Everything else is just packed.

I lived a few hundred meters from Saint-Josse, it’s neither ...

2024-09-12T13:32:40Z

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I lived a few hundred meters from Saint-Josse, it’s neither quiet nor particularly car-free sadly qwq

This sign is a good example of effective German. Your grammar ...

2024-09-07T08:46:02Z

This sign is a good example of effective German. Your grammar really doesn’t matter, if you want a German to comply, just put the word ordnungsgemäß there and they’ll figure it out.

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2024-05-15T18:31:00Z

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bonjour

Le Sharkle, a giant blåhaj carrying you across the Channel ...

2024-05-15T18:24:27Z

Le Sharkle, a giant blåhaj carrying you across the Channel Tunnel

der lustigste Bahnhof Spaniens ...

2023-09-01T18:23:30Z

der lustigste Bahnhof Spaniens

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