bomb blast World War II bomb blown up on the Karlsruhe-Basel railway line The detonation of a World War II bomb has caused chaos in rail traffic. photo © Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa Even many decades after the Second World War, bombs keep popping up during construction work. A recent case also had consequences for long-distance traffic between Karlsruhe and Basel. During excavations on Friday, an excavator driver found a World War II bomb near the Karlsruhe-Basel railway line. Deutsche Bahn...
media RBB: The last directors of the Schlesinger line are leaving A sign with the logo of the public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in front of the entrance to the broadcaster's headquarters on Masurenallee. photo © Monika Skolimowska/dpa The crisis-ridden RBB draws a line under the former management around the dismissed director Patricia Schlesinger. Now none of the directors work for the ARD channel. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) has separated from the last remaining members of the controversial management team around...
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The failure of the district heating supply on Saturday caused the heating to fail for a few hours in several hundred households west of the S-Bahn line in the communities of Ottobrunn, Taufkirchen, Brunnthal and Hohenbrunn-Riemerling. The Phönix-Bad in Ottobrunn was also affected, as was the Ikea furniture store in the Brunnthal commercial area, as a spokeswoman for Stadtwerke München (SWM) confirmed on Monday when asked.First of all, on Saturday afternoon, local residents complained to the Ottobrunn volunteer fire brigade...
Another "dark day" to be expected for users of Ile-de-France transport. The RATP unveiled on Monday its traffic forecasts for this Tuesday, January 31, where a national mobilization at the call of the unions to protest against the pension reform and the postponement of the legal retirement age. And it looks complicated for users. After a first day of mobilization on January 19 which had greatly disrupted the traffic, bis repeated. The RATP and the SNCF invite “all travelers who...
First only helmets for the Ukraine, now the main battle tank "Leopard" - although that was still considered taboo until recently. What does this shift say about German security policy? How is Germany's self-image changing in the world? In this episode of 11KM we ask what the German arms deliveries of the past few months mean and what they say about Germany - with Kai Küstner, he is an expert on security policy in the ARD capital studio and host...
It will not run until 2028 in Toulouse, but it is already generating comments. While waiting to be able to take metro line C, which will connect Colomiers to Labège, Toulouse residents can already see what it will look like. Until February 9, a full-size model is indeed on display at the Square de Gaulle. And for this student who looks at this streamlined car on stilts from afar, the new train is "rather design and refined".With its pastel livery,...
The municipality of Ramsau wants to develop an alpine pasture area on the Watzmann with water, sewage, electricity and data cables. But the exact course of the route is disputed, the Bund Naturschutz has announced a lawsuit. Everything flows, Heraclitus is said to have once said, but he has concealed one thing: Before water, sewage, electricity and data, for example, can flow properly, funding often has to flow first. At the Blaueishütte on the Hochkalter in Berchtesgadener Land, for example,...
The Bordeaux tramway runs to the airport! It will begin its commercial service from the end of April, if the tests which have just started this Wednesday go smoothly. Eagerly awaited in metropolitan France, this new link will put Bordeaux city center just thirty-five minutes from the airport. The commissioning of this extension of almost five kilometers serving five stations and which cost 95 million euros is announced for the end of April.6,500 passengers per day envisagedAccording to forecasts, about...
Ten years is the time it took Hercules to complete his twelve labours. It is also the time it will take to move to the complete automation of line 13, which given its complexity, would be a major challenge for the Greek demigod, if he lived in Carrefour-Pleyel. But we are not there. Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the transport organizing authority, has just approved the preliminary project studies for the complete automation of line 13 during its board of directors on...
