Tag: transport

Our voice should be matter: Multimodal digital mobility services

Written on 28. June 2023.

On behalf of the Renew Europe Group and the Greens, we have written a letter to President Ursula von der Leyen, the Vice-Presidents and the Commissioner. We raised the issue of the legislative proposal on digital mobility services, which was originally intended to be adopted in the 2022 work programme to boost digital solutions and support integrated and sustainable mobility. The letter is also particularly important because EU citizens have the right to uniform and easy access to mobility tools, which can only be achieved through the liberalisation of ticketing systems. The proposed measure...

Internet in Danish Trains. Designed to make you pay?

Written on 6. January 2015.

If you pay for a first class ticket in Danish trains you get free internet – as well as coffee and Danish newspapers. However if you speak English, you may not know this. When you log on the TDC wifi, this is what you see: Only to the far left is something written – only in Danish – about internet on the train. Featured prominently is how to pay for internet, and how to get online as a trusted TDC customer. A friend of mine, who has travelled many times for work from Copenhagen airport to Aarhus by train on first class, has been paying for internet each time untill I told...