GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trvaelers on Intercity anad Inter-regional trains from German-speaking Switzerland to Geneva airport had an unpleasant surprise Friday morning around 07:00 when train service between Lausanne and Geneva was canceled. Service is back again, mid-morning, but check the CFF site for delays. The service breakdown was due to a points problem on the [...]
Chateau de Chillon awards major design project to Lausanne architect
April 18, 2013 by
Switzerland’s most popular tourist attraction to house new service areas GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Chateau de Chillon has awarded first prize in its architectural and landscape competition for a new cafeteria and boutique to Lausanne architectural firm Dreier Frenzel, with art historian Clément Crevoisier. The award comes with prize money of CHF30,000 and a recommendation [...]
Crime rate up 9% in Switzerland, mainly theft – urban areas worst hit
March 26, 2013 by
Lausanne’s increase highest: detective work paying off, but cop patrols to be stepped up GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Crime is on the rise in Switzerland, up 9 percent overall in 2012, with robberies showing an 11 percent increase nationwide. Theft in urban areas has risen more rapidly than elsewhere. Two other areas of crime that are [...]
Area accidents take 3 lives
March 21, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three men have died in area accidents since Tuesday, one following a scooter accident in Renens, near Lausanne, another when his paraglider crashed near Ollon and the other in an avalanche in Trient, canton Valais. A man died in hospital in Sion Tuesday 19 March, a day after he was caught in [...]
Lausanne police battle 150 Saturday night
March 18, 2013 by
City to push for clubs taking more responsibility LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Three people were injured in a fight involving 100 to 150 persons in the early hours of Saturday in Lausanne, say city police. Police were called to the scene at 03:40 when a fight that broke out inside Le Loft, a club in the [...]
Second pedestrian death, third road fatality in five days in Vaud
March 11, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two pedestrians died Sunday in canton Vaud, one of them an 18-year-old who was hit while walking along the autoroute. Their deaths bring to three the number of people killed on roads in the canton since Thursday 7 March. A 78-year-old woman was killed Sunday evening at 19:45 on the road coming [...]
Police in region add new recruits
March 11, 2013 by
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Police in Geneva, Valais and Vaud all celebrated the arrival of new recruits in the past 10 days, with swearing-in ceremonies that mark the end of their one-year training programmes as uniformed cops on the beat (gendarmes) or plains-clothes detectives. The ceremonies are attended by VIPs from the police world, where there [...]
Swiss polytechnics’ fees increase delayed
March 7, 2013 by
Board of EPFL and ETHZ agrees to wait, to review parliament’s bid ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Students at Switzerland’s two federal polytechnic institutions, EPFL in Lausanne and ETHZ in Zurich will not see fees double in 2015, the board for the two said Wednesday 6 March, but fees are nevertheless likely to go up. The board [...]
Travel alert: Geneva-Lausanne train service interrupted
February 20, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A “person accident” between Coppet and Nyon Wednesday evening is causing major interruptions on the Geneva Airport-St Gallen line. A number of fast trains are cancelled between Geneva and Yverdon-les-bains as well as Geneva and Lausanne, with only very limited local train service between Coppet and Nyon. The CFF expects the lines [...]
Bern-Lausanne-Geneva trains cancelled Thursday evening
January 31, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Travellers alert: contact problems on the line near Fribourg have caused the CFF rail company to cancel several trains in both directions between Geneva and Bern and Lausanne and Bern. The problem is expected to be resolved by 21:00 Thursday 31 January. Passenges are being rerouted via Biel/Bienne, with some delays. Details [...]
