French vacations?

@@FelixSeverus Yeah, I know that they can take looooong pauses for vacations, but it's usually August that's mostly affected. Having a nearly complete hiatus for the quasi entire summer (over two months) seems a bit excessive, even for the French (of which I am one). Maybe they've suspended all deliveries to Paris for the last-mile preparations and duration of the Olympics and Paralympics to avoid any interference. It would be understandable, but at the same time, Alstom is quite late on the delivery of MP14 trains and 2 lines, M11 and the major M14 (which is extremely important for the games), are operating with reduced fleets. It's manageable for M11 but more problematic for M14. Currently, and since its large extension, line 14 is operating with a seriously incomplete fleet. There should be 72 MP14 trains in 8-car formation running on the line with 85 seconds between departures during peak hours. They lack at least something like 20 or 25 trains, so they can't operate at maximum frequency and are limited to 105 or 125 seconds at best between departures in high frequency. A few dozen seconds seem not much, but it is a big deal on such a busy line ; that's about 28 to 34 trains per hour per track instead of over 42... (that's up to between 10,000 and 16,000 fewer passengers transported per hour, it's huge). The line is expected to pass a million daily riders in the coming months and is primordial for the Olympics as it serves the Athletes Village, and crosses Paris in diagonal from North to South, while also serving Paris second international airport and following the busiest corridor parallel to lines 1 and A. I would have thought that they would have done everything to increase the fleet as soon as possible, even if it's only by 1, 2, or 3 additional trains.

@@KyrilPG I was not aware of that, thank you for the additional information! It is a huge impact actually.

@@FelixSeverus Yeah, even though it can be somehow manageable during the Olympics, it will be a problem in September when the holidays are over and transportation network is back to its +10 million passengers daily. Line 14 used to have about 650k daily riders in its previous form, operating with 85 seconds between departures during peak hours. But now, with 14 additional kilometers and an international airport station in the South, and a little under 2km of new extension plus a new hub station in the North, the "back-to-school / work" period in September will bring massive crowds in a line unable to operate at its highest capacity. With the currently incomplete fleet, a 2-hour window during peak hours will have a capacity reduced by 40,000 to +60,000 passengers on the line. So, it looks like September and following months are going to be difficult for everyday users of line 14. They've announced a complete fleet for December 2024 or January or February 2025, and I was initially wondering why so late. If there are no deliveries during this summer, that answers the question. There should be 3 to 4, maybe 5, trains delivered each month after the hiatus. I hope, if it's due to the Olympics, that Alstom will still produce them this summer and keep them on the factory to be delivered rapidly from September on. So that we can have a more normal back-to-work autumn and a faster return to the normal 85-second frequency.

Tgv in India would cool asf

It's quite an enigma to me why they are so clingy with the power car concept. It's not like they never tried to do an EMU. Their AGV had quite a conventional design compared to their other trains. A single decker EMU, just like pretty much any other high speed train. Still they kind of reverted back to the power car design.

@@joshdavid258 To add insult to injury they say they want to improve the design for the passengers, the railways and the DRIVERS.

@@StefanWithTrains3222I think they plan on having it be optionally driven I honestly doubt many operators will remove their drivers tbh..

Black and white based designs did in fact exist before Space X and thus not everything using this design scheme is inspired by Space X.

What do you find disturbing about it? I have never been in an TGV and I am just curios.

​@@aresivrc1800The commenter hasn't been on the TGV either. The bot is just saying something to get a reaction.

Indeetd its wazs wery ameizing to hier diz english-french

The Avelia Liberty has been fixed, the testing phase is nearly completed after working out the faults. They will enter service in fall or winter this year.

@@StefanWithTrains3222 Still took them 2 years though, 4 years late from introduction in 2020.

Not the easiest infrastructure to begin with and experimental power cars. This is still a long delay but I doubt Siemens would have done any better. At least the Avelia Libery will be highly upgradable as the infrastructure improves overtime since these power cars are meant for higher speeds.

Compeltely new train series, needs to be tested and all. Not so different if it would have been siemens, except they might have launched it eariler and delivered it with flaws without repairing them.

Ur infrastructure sucks. You can't have a state of the art bicycle when the road is full of pot holes

Exact

Surtout avec un accent aussi catastrophique

@@ErickHumboldt C'eût été tellement plus simple de parler en français avec des sous-titres anglophones ! ...

@@picardiebelleregion9508 tellement !

meme comme un anglophone je suis d'accord, parler en leur langue natif permettrent ces gens passionés de parler avec plus d'enthausiasme

@@benjaminblandin moi j ai rigolé j’ai cru c’était une parodie mais j’ai déchanté quand j ai vu que c’était Alstom officiel, ils auraient dû parler en français directement et sous titrer en anglais car je doute fort qu un anglophone qui n’a pas l’anglais en langue d’origine comprend quelque chose vu l’accent 😅

Alstom a beaucoup de clientèle à l'étranger donc leurs communication comme tel est cohérente 👍

@@SP95 je te remercie je suis au courant que l’alstom est une entreprise internationale mais j imagine que les investisseurs un minimum sérieux savent lire donc lire des sous titre en anglais aurait pas fait de mal 😅😅😅 honnêtement même un anglais ne comprendrait rien … l’accent français est l’un des pire pour un anglophone, a la rigueur ils peuvent baraguiner de l’anglais mais avec des sous titre pour nos futurs client ? 😂 là c’est clownesque 😂

Pour en avoir parlé à plusieurs reprises avec des étrangers, ce genre d'accent au hachoir ne les dérangent pas tant que c'est dans un contexte professionnel, ça donne même un style d'après eux. Pour nous évidemment on le vit comme une torture auditive et une humiliation mais c'est bien moins grave que nous l'imaginons.

@@SP95 alors par politesse il ne te l’ont pas dit mais derrière notre dos on se fout littéralement de notre bouche donc pour toi la communication d’alstom est à la hauteur ? Avec tout l’argent qu ils gagnent ( beaucoups d’argent publique) ils pouvais missioner une agence de communication ou mettre des intervenants anglophones avec un accent naturel comme fait Airbus , Ariane espace , stellantis , Renault, Carrefour le font parfaitement

I don't think the Shinkansen looks more modern. It just looks different

I think specifically the e5, 700 series, and n700 series have cleaner flowing lines, less panelling, less visual interruptions, longer more elegant noses, cooler glasses, and airplane-like windows that make them look modern. The complexity yet simplicity of something like the "duck bill" shape of the 700 series nose is unmatched by any other high speed train. (I'm doing my bachelor's in (transportation) design and my expert professors agree as well). Some of them look like spaceships in comparison? Don't more people think so?

I prefer the look of alstoms high speed trains, they look modern and human. The shinkanshen doesn't look bad imo, I just think it's too otherworldly, like an alien spaceship instead of a human one.

Btw by "cool glasses" i meant the wraparound visor around the drivers cabin pod instead of a conventional split windscreen like a bus/or a normal flat windscreen like a car found in most other trains

​@@panda_314 Then you should also know that the most important things are aerodynamics and noise. The Shinkansen has that long nose for one reason only. To reduce the sonic boom coming from entering tight tunnels at high speed

😂😂 c’est tout à fait ça

I could see Amtrak switching the a future version of the Siemens Velcro Novo with how many problems the Avelias are having.

Just like SpaceX a decade ago? That went well... 👀

@@MacGuyver85 Even SpaceX knows that trains are the superior medium of transport, they demolished their Hyperloop test tube in order to build a railyard track.

@@trippytrains6289 Lol. Whatever makes you sleep at night.

@@MacGuyver85 Let's play a game. You name one example where the hyperloop worked well, I name 10 examples where rail works well. Winner gets to walk away without feeling like an idiot.

@@Ruzzky_Bly4t What nonsense, Hyperloop is a mode of transport that is in development. Rail is an established technology. Try your "game" when rail was in development and horse and carriage was the established technology.