DSB

26. mar 2013 Now and then I comment on DSB, the Danish railway service, as well as other trafic service companies, because of the complicated, opaque and antiquated systems they operate to handle the transportion of the customers (as the passangers are called), and especially the payment for these services. Different types of travelling cards, subscription models, various reduces prices, special offers, and zoning turn the trip into a pricing labyrinth, in which not even the automated price computation system can calculate the smartest and cheapest selection. Or rather: I’m not certain it does.

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Jyllingevej is no station

Jyllingevej is no station

1. DEC 2009 // offentligt rum /dsb
Oh yeah, noo, it’s a road, right ... Jyllinge[road] ? Well, but everybody familiar with the S-trains in Copenhagen, especially between Ballerup and Vanløse, knows that Jyllingevej is the last station before Vanløse. And now it is no station.
Well then, Jyllingevej is the last station (if I may insist) before Vanløse, and thus […]

Apps for traffic information can be useful, but not all the way

8. OKT 2011 // apps /dsb /navigation /offentligt rum
I know it sounds a bit paradoxical. Usually I call to recognize randomness as a condition of life. But when it comes to traffic and road out in the public domain, I freak info. The more data available, the better, it's just like that. And when it comes to public transport ... How long time before the next train, do I sprint, wander, […]
Vesterport st

Vesterport st

27. MAR 2010 // reklame /offentligt rum /dsb
Claim the real mayonnaise. Use Tungsram lightbulbs. Political incorrect ads are being revealed at Vesterport st.
Vesterport st (copenhagen - and I know it may not be a station, see “Jyllingevej is no station”) is being cleaned up. And these old ads are reveiled.

Don’t buy a train ticket with this app

25. JUL 2011 // reklame /offentligt rum /apps /dsb
Unfinished, ill-considered apps or apps that serve the market better than the use off it. If Apple has a sometimes paranoid restrictive approach to the formalities regarding an app you want to get into the App Store, they may have a comparable little interest in that the app works well. Fortunately, one could say, that should be […]