Florian Stöger
@fdms
Young explorer // trains and spaces, travel and places // transit information design and local politics by day, rail travels by night // from Vienna 🇪🇺
Until over a decade ago there used to be a public bathroom here until the bike path finally got widened :D
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)
Non-articulated busses with four doors and regular articulated busses with five are still common in Slovakia and afaik to a lesser extent Czechia (newer orders there however tend to be conventional western busses with just three/four doors)
Taking the legacy stock Nightjet from Zurich to Graz on the way back (I guess my first time on a night train on the Korarlmbahn), and today we're perfectly on time <3
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
That road also has really convoluted standing/parking restrictions: There's no standing in the car lanes, except for passenger pick-up and drop-off, and except for off-peak hours during which the no standing turns into no parking
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
Another sort-of day trip to Switzerland begins ✨ Looking forward to cycling in and around Zurich tomorrow (in, uh, 37C weather)
Genuinely confused (except for international trains to Poland the Transit app doesn't have long-distance trains in Austria and instead does long-distance routing by regional transit only, also they apparently use Styrian iconography for all of Austria 🥲)
Just mainline rail GTFS things: Two Polish trains running from Graz to Bruck at the exact same time, yet the S-Bahn runs once a day only
Also: The station is still really beautifully designed and the seating super generous <3
I'm confident they'll improve this :) There's also regional bus departure screens here from the Verkehrsverbund, which are cool because they don't just indicate there's no realtime data about upcoming bus departures, but also note that's because busses run on weekdays only here
Seemingly taking inspiration from the anglosphere, the information cycle isn't just excessively long, most of the 100 seconds are dedicated to videos about the kiosks themselves and online information channels – whereas the service disruption poster is shown for merely 10 seconds
When not interacted with, those kiosks cycle through videos and static images in a lengthy 100 sec loop, only briefly including essential upcoming service disruption information not posted or indicated anywhere else at the station
Instead, there are several touchscreen kiosks near entrances and on platforms, through which the exact same posters currently available in print form at stations that still have vitrins can be accessed using a (somehow german-only) menu