It’s actually quite complicated and I did “simplify” some things. Like the train was already over the border. It’s the German/Swiss border … but there is actually a German railwaystation in Switzerland. So the train stops in German customs territory (in Switzerland) and you have to go to “border control” to exist the station. It was there that the train was held up.
But I don’t even understand how that works exactly. Like Switzerland is not in the EU but it is part of the Schengenzone, so you have “free movement” … who knows how it works.
So yeah, I “skipped” all that. In the end, the trained needed to be stopped for this important matter to be resovled.
Yeah that’s pretty complicated, I was just laughing at my own us-centrism for a moment. I’m still kinda pissed at our transit here, though.
Like, here, Minneapolis alone has several different agencies running in it (several precints of normal cops, transit cops, park cops. River cops.) not to mention “hosting” several agencies for suburbs. Any cops in the state can do things in the city.
Edit: also, holding the light rail train over a 2 dollar fare for an hour is exactly something the transit cops would do.
“We’re about to leave their jurisdiction…”- you
“That’s not how…”
“…. International….”
“Oh… that is how that works…”
It’s actually quite complicated and I did “simplify” some things. Like the train was already over the border. It’s the German/Swiss border … but there is actually a German railwaystation in Switzerland. So the train stops in German customs territory (in Switzerland) and you have to go to “border control” to exist the station. It was there that the train was held up. But I don’t even understand how that works exactly. Like Switzerland is not in the EU but it is part of the Schengenzone, so you have “free movement” … who knows how it works.
So yeah, I “skipped” all that. In the end, the trained needed to be stopped for this important matter to be resovled.
Yeah that’s pretty complicated, I was just laughing at my own us-centrism for a moment. I’m still kinda pissed at our transit here, though.
Like, here, Minneapolis alone has several different agencies running in it (several precints of normal cops, transit cops, park cops. River cops.) not to mention “hosting” several agencies for suburbs. Any cops in the state can do things in the city.
Edit: also, holding the light rail train over a 2 dollar fare for an hour is exactly something the transit cops would do.