GenevaLunch » public transport http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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 We love our Swiss trains more, and we love our cars a little lesshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/we-love-our-swiss-trains-more-and-we-love-our-cars-a-little-less/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/we-love-our-swiss-trains-more-and-we-love-our-cars-a-little-less/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 20:21:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70169 GenevaLunch.com Canton Vaud tells Bern: pump money into public transport LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Cleaner air, healthier citizens, faster transport – Canton Vaud’s infrastructure department head François Marthaler says we can have it all, by speeding up investments in public transport, and he is calling on Bern to do so. Marthaler’s demand in a statement from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/we-love-our-swiss-trains-more-and-we-love-our-cars-a-little-less/feed/ 0 Public transport deaths: fewer trains, more buses and tramshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/public-transport-deaths-fewer-trains-more-buses-and-trams/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/public-transport-deaths-fewer-trains-more-buses-and-trams/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:29:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69074 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Fewer people died in train accidents in Switzerland in 2011, compared to 2010, but the number of deaths related to trams and buses rose. The country saw 13 deaths from trains last year, down by 5, most of them due to crossing train tracks and movements by freight trains. The 18 other [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/public-transport-deaths-fewer-trains-more-buses-and-trams/feed/ 0 Vaud earmarks nearly half a billion for transport improvementshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/vaud-earmarks-nearly-half-a-billion-for-transport-improvements/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/vaud-earmarks-nearly-half-a-billion-for-transport-improvements/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:26:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65208 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud’s governing council has earmarked CHF425 million for improvements to the transport system over the next seven years, it said Thursday 12 January. The bulk will go to public transport and road improvements, the rest to improved and increased use of renewable energy. The money comes from unspent funds that are [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/vaud-earmarks-nearly-half-a-billion-for-transport-improvements/feed/ 0 Geneva traffic could be snarled by expected Occupy protests at the WTOhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/geneva-traffic-could-be-snarled-by-expected-occupy-protests-at-the-wto/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/geneva-traffic-could-be-snarled-by-expected-occupy-protests-at-the-wto/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:43:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64708 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – International organization employees are being alerted that traffic could be a problem in the area around the United Nations Palais and the World Trade Organization Thursday to Saturday, when the WTO holds a Ministerial meeting at the CICG, the Geneva conference centre. The area around the centre will be cordoned off and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/geneva-traffic-could-be-snarled-by-expected-occupy-protests-at-the-wto/feed/ 0 Finding help with Geneva’s TPG schedules, fareshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/finding-help-with-genevas-tpg-schedules-fares/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/finding-help-with-genevas-tpg-schedules-fares/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:35:32 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=64481 GenevaLunch.com Swiss cities’ public transport systems revise their schedules every December, with the changes timed to match new CFF Swiss rail schedules. Geneva’s changes are heavier than usual for 2012 and combined with major renovations at Cornavin station, it’s not always easy to work out times and fares. The TPG public transport system is offering two [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/finding-help-with-genevas-tpg-schedules-fares/feed/ 0 ABB in Canadian North Pole and transport dealshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/abb-in-canadian-north-pole-and-transport-deals/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/abb-in-canadian-north-pole-and-transport-deals/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:13:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63929 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss power and automation firm ABB announced two new ventures this week. The first is a $5.5 million deal awarded by the Canadian Space Agency for key applications for an instrument designed for meteorological observations on Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) mission satellites. The R&D contract is for an imaging spectroradiometer, a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/abb-in-canadian-north-pole-and-transport-deals/feed/ 0 California’s high-speed rail line won’t get US funds next yearhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/californias-high-speed-rail-line-wont-get-us-funds-next-year/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/californias-high-speed-rail-line-wont-get-us-funds-next-year/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:12:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63679 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – California’s efforts to extend its planned high-speed rail line from San Francisco to Anaheim won’t have funding from the federal government in 2013, but the High Speed Rail Authority in the state says this won’t have an immediate impact, since the programme assumes no federal funding in 2012. The $8 billion cut [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/californias-high-speed-rail-line-wont-get-us-funds-next-year/feed/ 0 Public transport gets high green marks compared to carshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/12/public-transport-gets-high-green-marks-compared-to-cars/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/12/public-transport-gets-high-green-marks-compared-to-cars/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:37:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61429 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss public transport systems do more than simply carry more people for less fuel: they also get relatively high ecology marks for their overall impact on the environment. A study ordered by the federal government, published in German 9 September, shows that while public transport is far ahead of road traffic at [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/12/public-transport-gets-high-green-marks-compared-to-cars/feed/ 0 EPFL makes big push to shift to bicycleshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/23/epfl-makes-big-push-to-shift-to-bicycles/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/23/epfl-makes-big-push-to-shift-to-bicycles/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 08:47:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58008 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – EPFL, the federal polytechnic institute in Lausanne, is pushing bicycles and will continue to do so until the end of June, in every sense, with its Bike to Work 2011 programme, which kicks off 23 May. The school wants “to reduce by 10 percent by 2014 the 30 tons of CO₂ emitted [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/23/epfl-makes-big-push-to-shift-to-bicycles/feed/ 0 Hospital, public transport costs likely to rise significantlyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/04/hospital-public-transport-costs-likely-to-rise-significantly/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/04/hospital-public-transport-costs-likely-to-rise-significantly/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 17:29:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57247 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Hospital as well as some train fares in Switzerland are expected to rise significantly in 2012, based on preliminary remarks by a Swiss health organization and the CFF rail company Tuesday 3 May. Santésuisse 3 May announced that it expects to see hospital costs rise by 1.6 percent overall in Switzerland, [...]

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