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Live Blog – Conclusions Tour Day 01 – 15 September – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Stuttgart – Nürnberg – Marktredwitz

by Jon Worth on 15.09.2025 0 comments

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Route map | Photos Today’s live text updates [srr_feed urls=”https://gruene.social/@jon.rss” filter_name=”15_Sep” filter_type=”show” thumbnail_position=”align_right” thumbnail_size=”150px” scroll_height=”400px” show_date=”1″ ticker_speed=”8″ date_timezone=”Europe/Berlin” page_size=”4″ display_type=”vertical_ticker” date_format=”H:i” count=”20″ rich_desc=”1″ no_feed_text=”No live updates are showing here – probably because the this day is too far […]

#CrossBorderRail at the Les Journées d’été des Écologistes

by Jon Worth on 23.08.2025 2 comments

The France-Italy office of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung approached me and asked whether I would like to present #CrossBorderRail at the big summer event of the French Green Party 21-23 August in Strasbourg. The result is a small poster series in English, French and German, explaining my project and the […]

Mapy.com – the map app for everything?

by Jon Worth on 22.08.2025 2 comments

This summer’s #CrossBorderRail Finale tour was the first I did without using Komoot as my bike mapping tool. Read the post I wrote before the tour for the background as to why I wanted to switch. Now after having been using Mapy.com as my alternative for more than 1000km of […]

Quick mid August stock take – statistics, photos, and a conclusions tour plan for the autumn

by Jon Worth on 13.08.2025 0 comments

A week ago the #CrossBorderRail 2025 finale ended, and I am writing this post back in Ravières, and this is a kind of quick stock take. The finale encompassed 25000km on 168 trains, more than 1000km on the Birdy folding bike, and a mass of experience and lessons learned that […]

A quick stock take before #CrossBorderRail starts again on 1st July

by Jon Worth on 30.06.2025 1 comment

On 6th June, the #CrossBorderRail finale started – with the first part of the trip continuing until 24th June. Now, the day before the trip starts again it’s time for a quick recap of what happened so far, and what I learned from it. The map of the whole route, […]

#CrossBorderRail: what am I trying to find? And what’s the goal?

by Jon Worth on 05.06.2025 0 comments

15 June 2022, and it is Day 2 of my very first #CrossBorderRail tour, and it is a gorgeous sunny morning in Nijmegen in Netherlands. I unfold the Birdy bike and cycle off towards the 6th border of the project at that stage, the dismantled line between Nijmegen and Kleve […]

Crowdfunding for the final #CrossBorderRail big tour is now live

by Jon Worth on 12.05.2025 0 comments

When in some post-lockdowns, post-Brexit, where-do-I-invest-my-political-energy moment of inspiration (or madness?) I thought of crossing every internal border of the EU you can cross by train in one journey to investigate how we better improve international rail connections, little did I know I was starting something that would be a […]

A high speed rail plan for Europe? Let’s start with a high speed rail plan for France’s borders

by Jon Worth on 08.05.2025 2 comments

The European Commission and the state owned railway companies are getting very excited about the idea there could be a EU masterplan for high speed rail. With that in mind, let’s do a little thought experiment. This started as a Bluesky thread, and has been lightly edited into this blog […]