GenevaLunch » CEVA http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Geneva rail groundbreaking marks “historic” day for regional tieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/geneva-rail-groundbreaking-marks-historic-day-for-regional-ties/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/geneva-rail-groundbreaking-marks-historic-day-for-regional-ties/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:49:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63591 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The politicians, and there were many of them, at the groundbreaking ceremony for Ceva, the new French-Swiss regional rail system, made much of the historic importance of the moment. The ceremony Tuesday morning 15 November comes 100 years after Switzerland and Geneva signed an agreement to undertake the financing of a rail [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/geneva-rail-groundbreaking-marks-historic-day-for-regional-ties/feed/ 1 Update: Swiss minaret ban gets “yes” votehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/29/early-results-show-swiss-minaret-ban-yes-vote/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/29/early-results-show-swiss-minaret-ban-yes-vote/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:23:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32573 GenevaLunch.com Background on local and national Swiss votes 29 November, GenevaLunch Update 16:40  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss voters turned Sunday voted to ban the construction of new minarets in the country, with 57.5 percent of voters approving the initiative and 42.5 percent opposed to it. The vote went along language lines, with Swiss Germans voting [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/29/early-results-show-swiss-minaret-ban-yes-vote/feed/ 10 Swiss vote Sunday on minarets, arms exports and fuel taxhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/26/swiss-vote-sunday-on-minarets-arms-exports-and-fuel-tax/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/26/swiss-vote-sunday-on-minarets-arms-exports-and-fuel-tax/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:18:05 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=32378 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Genevalunch) – Switzerland votes Sunday 29 November on three issues: construction of minarets, Swiss arms sales abroad, spending airplane fuel tax revenues. The Swiss generally vote four times a year on a variety of federal issues. Voters will also have cantonal issues to decide Sunday: in Geneva, they will be asked to approve [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/26/swiss-vote-sunday-on-minarets-arms-exports-and-fuel-tax/feed/ 3 Ceva rail project dealt blow by high court decisionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/08/ceva-rail-project-dealt-blow-by-high-court-decision/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/08/ceva-rail-project-dealt-blow-by-high-court-decision/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:09:53 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=27233 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The planned light rail line connecting Cornavin-Eaux Vives-Annemasse (Ceva) was delayed again by Switzerland’s administrative high court, in a decision made public 8 September. Two of the project’s partners, canton Geneva and CFF, Swiss federal railways, had asked the court to lift about 60 injunctions against the project, arguing that the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/08/ceva-rail-project-dealt-blow-by-high-court-decision/feed/ 0 Ceva rail opponents hand in 12,700 names for referendumhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/18/ceva-opponents-hand-in-12700-names-for-referendum/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/18/ceva-opponents-hand-in-12700-names-for-referendum/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:02:55 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25280 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Opponents to the planned light rail extension known as Ceva, which will link Geneva’s Cornavin and Eaux-Vives stations and Annemasse, handed in 12,700 signatures, almost 5,000 more than necessary, to force citizens in the canton to vote on it. Voters will decide on a supplementary credit of CHF 113 million towards [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/18/ceva-opponents-hand-in-12700-names-for-referendum/feed/ 1 Swiss high court rules against Ceva transport system protestorshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/29/swiss-high-court-rules-against-ceva-transport-system-protestors/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/29/swiss-high-court-rules-against-ceva-transport-system-protestors/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:52:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=16155 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss high court has ruled against a group that is fighting the planned regional transport system, Ceva, that would link the Geneva region and neighbouring France by rail. The group had argued for a line that would avoid Champel and be moved further south, towards the Salève. The court ruled [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/29/swiss-high-court-rules-against-ceva-transport-system-protestors/feed/ 0 Ceva transport project in Geneva: delay upheldhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/27/ceva-transport-project-in-geneva-delay-upheld/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/27/ceva-transport-project-in-geneva-delay-upheld/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:06:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=11246 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – A Swiss federal administrative court ruled Friday that work cannot go ahead on the urban transport project for the greater Geneva area, Ceva. The start of the project, a venture between the Swiss national CFF rail company and Geneva, has been held up by some 60 objections filed, and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/27/ceva-transport-project-in-geneva-delay-upheld/feed/ 1 Geneva urban area rail plans laid outhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/14/geneva-urban-area-rail-plans-laid-out/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/14/geneva-urban-area-rail-plans-laid-out/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:46:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=10735 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Geneva Tuesday presented details including likely routes and timetables, for an RER urban transport plan that is designed to greatly reduce automobile traffic in the greater Geneva area in Switzerland and France. The new project was signed by French, Geneva and Vaud authorities in March 2008 and will link [...]

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