Florian Stöger

@fdms.eu

Young explorer // trains and spaces, travel and places // transit information design and local politics by day, rail travels by night // from Vienna 🇪🇺

Marseille's (physically) hottest club is (Sort of mazing how little here seems to have changed since my last visit in 2018, be it extent, state or convenience of Marseille's transit network)

Orange interior of a Marseile metro trains from the 70s. It has no AC and only a few super tiny windows

Cool that trams are getting sped up here by moving car traffic off the tracks and onto the parking lane (though somewhat odd this parking lane arrangement was built in the first place)

Streetview imagery of Fasangasse ahead of the Rennweg S station intersection. The parking lane here consists of just two driveways and 2 bike parking stands.

Zurich's love of widespread legal sidewalk parking is genuinely disturbing Those sidewalks aren't even that wide, yet cars need to drive on them for almost the entire length of the block to access that second lane of parking on the other side of the sidewalk

A street with cars parked in spots right next to buildings, accessible only by driving on the sidewalk, in addition to a regular parking lane on the other side of the sidewalk

Interesting how (notoriously gray) Zurich's approach to street trees seems to be the popular opposite of Vienna's – planting lots of them on small footprints, densely spaced (great!), but somehow refusing to have any grass on even the widest streets

Lots of trees but no grass on a wide street in Zurich
Florian Stöger@fdms.eu · last yr.

Compare that to a recent project I voted on in my (very progressive) Vienna district, which turned relatively many car parking spots into space for trees, but still got us nowhere near continuous tree coverage

Hi from Weststeiermark, a station on Austria's new Koralmbahn opened six months ago Implementing ÖBB's digital strategy, there are no printed train timetables anywhere at this station (imo sensibly so), and no vitrins for any other passenger information posters

Main entrance showing digital departure boards and a vertical touchscreen as well as a single ticket vending machine

Erste Bank really found the best way to enter a foreign market- Charter an international train, with elaborate branding, fine dining and live music, and let employees and raffle winners from the public ride it for free on a few runs between their HQ in Vienna and Poland (their new market)

Vectro locomotive and Polish long-distance coaches in full Erste Bank branding at Breclav station (where our Talgo, seen on the left, is scheduled to spend over 30 mins)

Avant (2021) / Après (2026) the parking reconfiguration that turned what used to be the worst sidewalk in this Währing neighborhood into a relatively pleasant one Proud of this one since it's the result of the first motion I introduced as a district councilmember back in 2023 :)

2021: Sidewalk with permitted sidewalk parking making it very narrow. Gersthof, Währing, Vienna2026: Parking has been moved off the sidewalk by transferring angled parking on the opposite side of the street to parallel parking. Still no street trees unfortunately

CFM removed both middle cars from this D1 DMU, reduced frequency from daily to thrice a week and cancelled several intermediate stops en route from Chişinău to Ungheni, yet on our ride last evening still somehow managed to leave Chişinău early and already arrive late at the first stop