GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The city of Geneva wants to stop collecting garbage, reports the Tribune de Geneva Monday 2 April, citing a study done for the city. The study recommends that the city replace its garbage trucks that pick up bags in front of apartment blocks with a total of 350 collection points, mainly deep, [...]
And then there were 4: Gotthard road to be widened
June 27, 2012 by
BERN / ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Expect miracles. The end is in sight for the long holiday delays to get through the Gotthard Tunnel, a 10 km main north-south channel for road traffic in Europe. The Swiss government announced Wednesday that it will widen the major artery, which opened in 1980, by building a second road [...]
Swiss pioneering cleaner diesel to reduce exhaust-linked cancers
June 26, 2012 by
Diesel exhaust officially labeled carcinogenic BERN, SWITZERLAND – Diesel vehicles are growing steadily in popularity in Switzerland and are now nearly 20 percent of the total, says Bern, but the lower price of the fuel has a down side. A body of evidence now shows toxic fine particulates in diesel soot are carcinogenic. Diesel engine [...]
Deadly M-5 UK motorway accident involves 27 vehicles
November 5, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 27-vehicle pileup on the M5 motorway in Somerset, England, has killed an unknown number of people but initial reports list 5 dead, at least 43 injured. The accident occurred at 20:35 Friday 4 November at exit 25 northbound, near Taunton, with the crashes sparking a huge fireball. It appears that six [...]
Mexico’s crime wars: 35 bodies dumped on rush-hour road
September 21, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Thirty-five bodies were recovered by police in Boca del Rio in the Mexican state of Veracruz Tuesday, after they were left in two trucks abandoned on a busy rush-hour road, with the gates open and the bodies spilling out. Police have identified seven of them, all with criminal backgrounds, according to CNN.
Customs seizes melted margarine and cocaine in the vegetables
May 23, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Customs officers in Geneva, at the Bardonnex post, had the slippery task Monday 23 May of destroying 2,470kg of melting margarine that was carried last week in a regular truck, under tarpaulin, from Portugal. The wholesaler in Geneva who ordered the goods told officials that he was planning to re-refrigerate it and [...]
World’s worst traffic jam: Chinese sit for 9th day
August 24, 2010 by
A mini-economy, with roadside merchants supplying food and drink, has appeared on the Jining-Beijing highway in China, part of the Tibet to Beijing expressway, where a 100-km tailback is now in its ninth day, making it a candidate for the world’s worst traffic jam. The slowdown is the result of road works and a traffic [...]
Eight die in night-time Mojave desert road race crash
August 16, 2010 by
(CNN amateur video) Six people died at the scene and two more in hospital, after a night-time off-road race crash in the Mojave desert in southern California. The 200-mile race was run at night to avoid the desert heat east of Los Angeles in the Lucerne Valley area of San Bernardino County. Spectators are warned [...]
2010 Swiss autoroute sticker now on sale
December 1, 2009 by
Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Drivers have until the end of January 2010 to put them on their cars, but the 2010 Swiss autoroute sticker, called a vignette in French, goes on sale today. The background is metallic orange and the date reddish-brown. The CHF40 annual road tax has been sold at the same price since [...]
