GenevaLunch » Travel http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Number of drunk drivers, speeders falls on Swiss roads http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/number-of-drunk-drivers-speeders-falls-on-swiss-roads/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/number-of-drunk-drivers-speeders-falls-on-swiss-roads/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66494 GenevaLunch.com 20-29 age group responsible for one-third of licenses lifted NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND – The number of drivers licenses removed by police in 2011 on Swiss roads fell by 2.6 percent, with a drop in every age group except those over 70, where there was a nearly 10 percent increase. The group that remains the most significant [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/number-of-drunk-drivers-speeders-falls-on-swiss-roads/feed/ 0 Swiss to fly to City airport rather than London Heathrow from Basel http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:36:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66447 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Airline Swiss will begin using City Airport in London rather than Heathrow for its Basel flights starting 21 May. The airline says “the modifications to Swiss’s Basel services have been prompted by the planned sale of sister Lufthansa Group carrier bmi to the International Airlines Group.”

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/swiss-to-fly-to-city-airport-rather-than-london-heathrow-from-basel/feed/ 0 Geneva traffic moving, but work continues on 4-day-old burst pipes http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/geneva-traffic-moving-but-work-continues-on-4-day-old-burst-pipes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/geneva-traffic-moving-but-work-continues-on-4-day-old-burst-pipes/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:33:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66429 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Traffic jams are dying down in Geneva after three days of snarled traffic, but the Quai Général-Guisan will remain closed until at least Thursday. Work is continuing on the area around the burst pipes that gave way to the cold Sunday 5 February.  

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/geneva-traffic-moving-but-work-continues-on-4-day-old-burst-pipes/feed/ 0 Record number new cars on Swiss roads in 2011 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/record-number-new-cars-on-swiss-roads-in-2011/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/record-number-new-cars-on-swiss-roads-in-2011/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:39:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66403 GenevaLunch.com Swiss warming up for the March Geneva car show as new models announced GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A record 420,900 new vehicles were put on Swiss roads in 2011, greatly overtaking the previous record set in 1989. The number of registered vehicles rose by 2.2 percent compared to 2010, rising to 5.5 million. The annual figures [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/record-number-new-cars-on-swiss-roads-in-2011/feed/ 0 Travel alert: Sion-Martigny trains out until Friday morning http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/travel-alert-sion-martigny-trains-out-until-friday-morning/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/travel-alert-sion-martigny-trains-out-until-friday-morning/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66246 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trains in both  directions between Martigny and Sion will not be running again until Friday morning says the CFF rail company, after a heavy load fell from a bridge near Riddes, damaging contacts on the lines. A bus service will replace local traffic but travellers between Geneva or Lausanne and Brig, including [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/travel-alert-sion-martigny-trains-out-until-friday-morning/feed/ 0 Weekend train service cut, 4-5 Feb, Lancy-Pont-Rouge and Geneva http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/weekend-train-service-cut-4-5-feb-lancy-pont-rouge-and-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/weekend-train-service-cut-4-5-feb-lancy-pont-rouge-and-geneva/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:10:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66241 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – CFF train service between Lancy-Pont-Rouge and Geneva will stop from 09:00 Saturday until the end of service Sunday, 4 and 5 February. The interruption is due to construction work on the line, part of the new Ceva regional rail project, and the CFF cautions that this is the first of what may [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/weekend-train-service-cut-4-5-feb-lancy-pont-rouge-and-geneva/feed/ 0 Reminder: new Swiss autoroute sticker obligatory today! http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/reminder-new-swiss-autoroute-sticker-obligatory-today/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/reminder-new-swiss-autoroute-sticker-obligatory-today/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:03:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66181 GenevaLunch.com Sticky business but there is a method to removing your old Swiss autoroute “vignette” GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A reminder to motorists who use the Swiss autoroutes: you must have your new sticker on the car today, correctly displayed and the old one must be removed. The fine for not observing the regulations has doubled to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/reminder-new-swiss-autoroute-sticker-obligatory-today/feed/ 0 Zurich north autoroute bypass to be widened http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66178 GenevaLunch.com View Larger Map ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – One of Switzerland’s worst spots for traffic jams will get some breathing space, with the Federal Highway Office approving a plan to widen the road from four to six lanes over 12 kilometres of the A1. A 3,300 metre-long additional tube will be added to the Gubrist tunnel. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/feed/ 0 Brussels 24 strike arrives just as EU crisis summit underways http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/brussels-24-strike-arrives-just-as-eu-crisis-summit-underways/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/brussels-24-strike-arrives-just-as-eu-crisis-summit-underways/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:11:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66125 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Flights in and out of Brussels are being disrupted Monday by a 24-hour strike by Belgium’s three main unions. The 30 January labour action comes at the same time as the Eurozone leaders’ summit to discuss the sovereign debt crisis. The unions’ protest against higher taxes and an austerity programme is causing [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/brussels-24-strike-arrives-just-as-eu-crisis-summit-underways/feed/ 0 Traffic jams on Geneva, Lausanne A1 stretches to get the Morges lanes treatment http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/19/traffic-jams-on-geneva-lausanne-a1-stretches-to-get-the-morges-lanes-treatment/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/19/traffic-jams-on-geneva-lausanne-a1-stretches-to-get-the-morges-lanes-treatment/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:24:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65405 GenevaLunch.com Major Swiss highway programme changes announced Annual highway tax/sticker to jump from CHF40 to 100 by 2015 GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The roadworks weren’t welcome at the time, but the switch in Morges from two to three lanes during rush hour, using  emergency lanes, has been such a success at reducing traffic jams that [...]

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