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 🇪🇺
Common euro w: Just spent the last three hours walking around Nouméa (pop 95k) and didn't see a single beg button
Nicely walkable, but the transit is terrible – the comprehensive network around the agglomération was scrapped during the 2024 riots, and has since only partially come back
Nicely walkable, but the transit is terrible – the comprehensive network around the agglomération was scrapped during the 2024 riots, and has since only partially come back
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Common euro w: Just spent the last three hours walking around Nouméa (pop 95k) and didn't see a single beg button
Nicely walkable, but the transit is terrible – the comprehensive network around the agglomération was scrapped during the 2024 riots, and has since only partially come back
Nicely walkable, but the transit is terrible – the comprehensive network around the agglomération was scrapped during the 2024 riots, and has since only partially come back
My most gadgetbahn-adjacent take remains that I actually like APS? (There isn't really a good reason to use it here though)
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My most gadgetbahn-adjacent take remains that I actually like APS? (There isn't really a good reason to use it here though)
The fjords may not be as extensive here as they are in the Sydney area, but Canberra might still just be my favorite place in Australia? I'm heading to Sydney now, but before I'll rejoin @jonasgaiswinkler.eu there I'll make a stopover elsewhere ✨
And now, my first time on a NSW Xplorer <3
And now, my first time on a NSW Xplorer <3
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The fjords may not be as extensive here as they are in the Sydney area, but Canberra might still just be my favorite place in Australia? I'm heading to Sydney now, but before I'll rejoin @jonasgaiswinkler.eu there I'll make a stopover elsewhere ✨
And now, my first time on a NSW Xplorer <3
And now, my first time on a NSW Xplorer <3
I'm such a sucker for great tree canopies, and this genuinely feels like the average street in Canberra <3
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I'm such a sucker for great tree canopies, and this genuinely feels like the average street in Canberra <3
Also they seem to be taking great care of the ducks here
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Also they seem to be taking great care of the ducks here
Genuinely love the messaging that implicitly ties new housing to further improved public amenities for everyone
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Genuinely love the messaging that implicitly ties new housing to further improved public amenities for everyone
Finally getting on a Canberra tram <3
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Finally getting on a Canberra tram <3
Special shout-out to Rosary Demonstration School for winning the 1988 Montone Action Bus Shelter Painting Competition!
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Special shout-out to Rosary Demonstration School for winning the 1988 Montone Action Bus Shelter Painting Competition!
Canberra UFO-style bus stop shelter appreciation post
(There are so many of those! All of them are hereby appreciated ☺️)
(There are so many of those! All of them are hereby appreciated ☺️)
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Canberra UFO-style bus stop shelter appreciation post
(There are so many of those! All of them are hereby appreciated ☺️)
(There are so many of those! All of them are hereby appreciated ☺️)
… from during my two-hour transfer from the XPT to a coach to the ACT
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
… from during my two-hour transfer from the XPT to a coach to the ACT
Some more foggy Goulburn impressions
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Some more foggy Goulburn impressions
Australia simply loves to "protect" active mobility
- Extremely long waits for pedestrians at traffic lights
- Bike helmet laws decreasing life expectancy by effecting hardly anyone cycles and making bikeshare impossible
- Further ""bike safety"" legislation (helmet fines start at 230€ in NSW)
- Extremely long waits for pedestrians at traffic lights
- Bike helmet laws decreasing life expectancy by effecting hardly anyone cycles and making bikeshare impossible
- Further ""bike safety"" legislation (helmet fines start at 230€ in NSW)
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Australia simply loves to "protect" active mobility
- Extremely long waits for pedestrians at traffic lights
- Bike helmet laws decreasing life expectancy by effecting hardly anyone cycles and making bikeshare impossible
- Further ""bike safety"" legislation (helmet fines start at 230€ in NSW)
- Extremely long waits for pedestrians at traffic lights
- Bike helmet laws decreasing life expectancy by effecting hardly anyone cycles and making bikeshare impossible
- Further ""bike safety"" legislation (helmet fines start at 230€ in NSW)
- The next phase isn't ped green but always green for *cross traffic*
- Next is ped green but for the crossing w the button press only
- Ped green lasts for <5 sec, immediately upon flashing ped red traffic in the same direction gets green
The idea seems to be to protect peds from turning traffic,
- Next is ped green but for the crossing w the button press only
- Ped green lasts for <5 sec, immediately upon flashing ped red traffic in the same direction gets green
The idea seems to be to protect peds from turning traffic,
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
- The next phase isn't ped green but always green for *cross traffic*
- Next is ped green but for the crossing w the button press only
- Ped green lasts for <5 sec, immediately upon flashing ped red traffic in the same direction gets green
The idea seems to be to protect peds from turning traffic,
- Next is ped green but for the crossing w the button press only
- Ped green lasts for <5 sec, immediately upon flashing ped red traffic in the same direction gets green
The idea seems to be to protect peds from turning traffic,
Traffic lights here (meaning Australia in general) are genuinely the worst from a pedestrian POV
- No automatic ped green with through traffic even on this shopping street w wide sidewalks etc
- Beg buttons all the way, which take forever to effectuate a signal change, even at 04:30 in the morning
- No automatic ped green with through traffic even on this shopping street w wide sidewalks etc
- Beg buttons all the way, which take forever to effectuate a signal change, even at 04:30 in the morning
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Traffic lights here (meaning Australia in general) are genuinely the worst from a pedestrian POV
- No automatic ped green with through traffic even on this shopping street w wide sidewalks etc
- Beg buttons all the way, which take forever to effectuate a signal change, even at 04:30 in the morning
- No automatic ped green with through traffic even on this shopping street w wide sidewalks etc
- Beg buttons all the way, which take forever to effectuate a signal change, even at 04:30 in the morning
* coziness intensifies *
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
* coziness intensifies *
My home for the night:
» Pando « <3
» Pando « <3
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My home for the night:
» Pando « <3
» Pando « <3
We try not to judge people for harmless things. That being said
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
We try not to judge people for harmless things. That being said
Now that's a proper chicane (and this street has lots of those)
Narrowing the street and allowing parking on one alternating side of the street only would be more effective, but still
Narrowing the street and allowing parking on one alternating side of the street only would be more effective, but still
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Now that's a proper chicane (and this street has lots of those)
Narrowing the street and allowing parking on one alternating side of the street only would be more effective, but still
Narrowing the street and allowing parking on one alternating side of the street only would be more effective, but still
(Love it here so much but) peak-only bike lanes 😭
What are they doing with those lane – barely a meter wide – outside of peak hours?
What are they doing with those lane – barely a meter wide – outside of peak hours?
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
(Love it here so much but) peak-only bike lanes 😭
What are they doing with those lane – barely a meter wide – outside of peak hours?
What are they doing with those lane – barely a meter wide – outside of peak hours?
Now for something completely different
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Now for something completely different
The difference is 29 vs 36 min, I'm guessing marketing people like "get there in under half an hour"
I'd probably rather skip the stop altogether than have every single train stop there
I'd probably rather skip the stop altogether than have every single train stop there
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The difference is 29 vs 36 min, I'm guessing marketing people like "get there in under half an hour"
I'd probably rather skip the stop altogether than have every single train stop there
I'd probably rather skip the stop altogether than have every single train stop there
Rare glimpse into the future that firm believers that there should simply be as much scrolling text as possible, everywhere, no matter the drawbacks, want
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Rare glimpse into the future that firm believers that there should simply be as much scrolling text as possible, everywhere, no matter the drawbacks, want