One ticket fits all at Mobilis
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Canton Vaud’s common transportation agreement, Mobilis, which allows passengers to use multiple forms of public transport with a single ticket, is to be extended end 2010, Lausanne newspaper 24 Heures reports 1 December.
Mobilis currently joins five separate transport companies – tl, MBC, CFF, LEB, CarPostal – over almost 870km of railway lines, bus routes and metros. But most of the canton is not covered by the Mobilis agreement. This will change in December 2010 when additional agreements and technical solutions will extend network coverage by almost 80 percent throughout the canton.
Profits went thataway
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Post office profits were down 16 percent to CHF358 million in the first six months of the year, the company said. The post office’s traditional business has suffered most. An increase in personnel costs because of salary increases and a higher headcount contributed to the drop in profits. The post office delivered 4.8 percent fewer letters in the period than last year, the result of the economic crisis and competition from electronic alternatives. The average annual rate of decrease of letters delivered had been 1.5 percent. Both PostFinance, the company’s bank, and CarPostal, the familiar yellow buses, posted profits. Post office rates came down starting 1 July, and the company does not foresee a very rosy second half of the year.
