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 49! Germany has been controlling (some of) its border crossings for 2 months now, and has managed to find 49 people in that time on the border from Luxembourg https://infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembourg/a/2249562.html That’s FEWER THAN 1 A DAY! For ridiculous cost employing police to do these controls! 🤯 Regardless of what you think of the ethics here this is an insane waste of money Also for context: having been pretty much only on French trains the past month, today I’m travelling Ravières - Strasbourg - Offenburg - Berlin, tomorrow Berlin - Büchen - Lübeck - Hamburg, and Wednesday Hamburg - Köln - Paris - Ravières. A lot of km on German railways. So rather than slamming Deutsche Bahn (which is a German national sport), I’m instead praising what I miss about DB when I’m in France
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 @jon Too late. 😂 Already there (since it launched) and enjoying it. Doesn’t affect my enjoyment of Mastodon, either. @jon there is also https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/geltungsbereich-deutschlandticket_916740#8/52.574/13.208 in case you didn't know that yet Enough for today... My mapping of all of Europe's rail borders is progressing slowly Grey: I've not been And the icon determines what sort of border it is Today I've plotted a lot of tramways and narrow gauge international railways Zoomable map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_838780#6/51.283/14.637 Just been at a thoroughly perplexing meeting about transport policies and Berlin’s re-run Abgeordnetenhauswahl in February The 9/29/49 Euro Ticket sort of shock to transport ticketing is the only major change since the election in Sept 2021, but no one has any coherent thinking about how all this is going to impact the election and campaigns Do it like in Vienna. €365 for annual ticket in A-B zones. Cheap for residents. Impractical for casual visitors. Win without extreme pressure on the coffers. So moss is a thing on Mastodon (or #mosstodon more appropriately). And I’m currently in Ravières in Bourgogne 🇫🇷 and here there is a lot of moss. I’ll post more next time I’m walking in the woods! |
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@jon Luxemburg is not a major entry point into Germany for migrants. As far as I can make out, that border is 85 miles long, which is but a tiny sliver of Germany's external border. For more try to enter illegally via Poland and Czechia. All in all, thousands have been stopped in that time (https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/migration-grenzkontrollen-in-deutschland-illegale-einreisen-sinken-um-13-prozent-a-c7f05f7d-7647-4839-8389-2b3067704a59). What happens on the tiny DE/LUX border is not a good indicator of the big picture.
@jon Luxemburg is not a major entry point into Germany for migrants. As far as I can make out, that border is 85 miles long, which is but a tiny sliver of Germany's external border. For more try to enter illegally via Poland and Czechia. All in all, thousands have been stopped in that time (https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/migration-grenzkontrollen-in-deutschland-illegale-einreisen-sinken-um-13-prozent-a-c7f05f7d-7647-4839-8389-2b3067704a59). What happens on the tiny DE/LUX border is not a good indicator...
@jon As RTL is not the best source, are there figures for all the other, much longer borders that Germany has? Luxembourg might be important to migrate money, so it shows the idioty, but the harder controls are on different borders.
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